Dangers of dental cleaning for dogs?

I have a 7 year old terrier mix that is scheduled for a dental cleaning in a couple of weeks. I am a little nervous as they will be putting him totally under to do procedure. He is very health but has had 2 mild seizures in his total life. I want him to continue to be health. Any one had any experience with dental cleaning for their dog????

Dangers of dental cleaning for dogs?
I have had mine done periodically and I hate the anesthesia but it needs to be done. I don't have dogs with seizure problems but my experience has been that mine are a little drowsy and not quite themseleves for about 48 hours. Talk to your dog's vet about his seizure history and see what he thinks. Gum disease can cause lots of other health problems and if he ends up needing teeth removed or an infection because of lack of cleaning, it will be worse than the cleaning experience.
Reply:I had my six year old Golden's teeth cleaned without incident. Just be certain that you make sure that the vet is aware of the past seizures and opt for the blood work that the vet might want. The blood work confirms that the internal organs are processing the anesthetic %26amp; oxygen properly.
Reply:Hi there I am a Veterinarian Tech and perform the dental cleanings twice a week. I completely understand your concern of your dog going under anesth. for his dental. I would HIGHLY recommend that you request your vet to run a mini-panel (pre-aneths. bloodwork) the morning before his dental. In order to run a Mini-Panel, your vet will draw a small amount of blood to test different levels in your dogs kidneys and liver to make sure they are healthy enough to go under anthes. At our clinic we start to really push clients to go forth with a Mini-Panel once the dogs are getting a little older (senior animals) just to be on the safe side. I have done dentals on dogs as old as 15, so no worries!!! Just ask for the bloodwork :) Hope this helps!
Reply:CLEAN YOUR dogs teeth yourself,,, i do mine every couple of weeks,,, i simply lay the dog on his back on my lap and i use a dentist's tooth scaler and simply scrape away the "gunk" from the back teeth.. it is quite simple,,,, vets will charge you tons for this and i do not believe in anesthitizing dogs for no reason......

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