Zoo DENTISTS

I read "Zoo DENTISTS". Dr. Paul and Dr. Sarah de Sanz are zoo dentists and they are father and daughter. They examine an elephant's teeth, a sea lion and rare black jaguar with a terrible pain its jaw. She treats human patients in her dental office in the San Francisco area in most of the time. She sometimes works as a zoo dentist and she treats animals. They do checkups, fillings and other dental work on any animal that needs treats. She and her father began to work on animals when she was a dental school student. He was happy because she became a dentist.

In the animal world, animals won't live if they have prob rems on their teeth, because they won't be able to do the natural cleaning of the teeth. They did it by chewing on bones and carcasses.

They began to check up Artie the sea lion. Artie was thirty years old and he made a very loud noise when she was checking up him. He agreed with her statement. Because he didn't have any problem on his teeth, she tried to take his X-ray. But it was so difficult. Whenever they took shots, he moved to a different position. At last, she succeeded in getting a clear picture. After all, his checkup went well.

Elephants always use six sets of teeth when those are eating and drinking. Sue was ten years old, old African elephant. They didn't only check the teeth in her mouth, but also looked at her tusks. Sue stand ed quickly while they examined her. Her teeth was nice.

One day, they have received a call from the Francisco Zoo. The zoo's rare black jaguar, twenty -one years old, Sandy who has a terrible toothache. 'Can I look in you mouth?'" he pointed out. At all, they put Sandy under anesthesia to look at it.

Zoo dentists must be careful when they put animals anesthesia. If they use too little, Sandy bite them. If they use too much, she will die. They prepared the drug and shot it into her. The team moved her to the operating room and tried to proceed with the surgery. But she has stopped breathing. Doctors gave her oxygen. She finally began to breathe on her own again. Her teeth were worse than they had expected. She became fine after she had surgery.

The dentists have completed another successful in a field of animal dentistry job.

Dentist is so excellent. I must go to a dental office because I want to take checkup. (423 words)

Points: 4.0

Points: -3.8 (Finish!!)

Zoo DENTISTS, 978-1-4240-1192-6, National Geographic