Bulldogs & French Bulldogs

PREVENT & TREAT

Bulldogs and French Bulldogs are prone to a wide range of painful and debilitating breed-related medical conditions. Most can be prevented and safely treated at your home, at a minimal cost.
 

Periodontitis

Periodontitis Dental Disease in Bulldogs and French Bulldogs
What is that?

Periodontitis is a severe bacterial infection and inflammation of the gingiva, the teeth ligaments and bone that surround and support your bulldog teeth.

Symptoms

Periodontitis presents as raw sometimes bleeding gums and heavily mineralized teeth deposits, anaerobe bacteria infection, draining tracts, oronasal fistulas, cavities, loss of teeth, and bad breath.

Subgingival Hair

Subgingival Hair in Bulldogs and French Bulldogs
What is that?

Coarse hairs are stuck between your bulldog's front teeth usually after licking off the legs and fur due to allergies, and anxiety. They can even get stuck in the palate, and migrate to the nose.

Symptoms

Bad breath, bleeding gums, loose teeth, draining tract all the way to the nasal cavity, pain, and hair sticking out from the abscessed teeth and gums.

Epulis Oral Growth

Bulldogs and French Bulldogs Epulides Gingival Tumors
What is that?

Bulldog epulides are abnormal hyperplastic gingiva that can appear as single or multiple "growth", in various sizes. They are more common in bulldogs and Fr. Bulldogs. than other breeds.

Symptoms

Bulldog Epulides are usually lumpy gingival growth, they can feel soft and hanging or hard and attached. They are usually benign and nonulcerative.

Oral Tumors

What is that?

Bulldog oral tumors can be benign, locally aggressive, or malignant (cancerous). Benign examples are epulis, cancerous are often squamous carcinomas that carry a poor prognosis.

Symptoms

Benign tumors are usually pink nonulcerative and smaller with minimal bleeding and necrosis. Aggressive cancerous ones are often hard, growing, necrotizing, bleeding, infected, with a rancid smell.

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