At Brookhurst Animal Medical Center, we offer the latest technology in ultrasound, laser surgery and basic dental care. The most important advantage these state of the art tools offer is better diagnostic information that improves our ability to diagnose and successfully treat your pet.
We use laser surgery technology that uses an invisible beam of high energy light to cut, cauterize or vaporize tissues. It replaces a scalpel but also does much more. By sealing tissues as it cuts, several important benefits result. There is less bleeding during surgery.
Here are some of the technologies that are used at Brookhurst Animal Medical Center.
ULTRASOUND
Ultrasound technology is a diagnostic imaging tool that enables us to see internal organs in a more dynamic way than x ray alone. It gives us information about organ health and helps identify conditions such as tumors, stones in the bladder or kidneys, or abnormalities in function and blood flow through the heart. It adds greatly to our diagnostic capabilities. Your doctor will tell you if your pet's diagnosis could be facilitated by a diagnostic ultrasound.
ENDOSCOPY
Endoscopy is the use of a fiber optic light and camera system to see deep into body cavities. This long, delicate instrument can be inserted into the esophagus, stomach, or colon to identify abnormalities such as ulcers, tumors, foreign bodies, or inflammatory disease. Biopsy and culture specimens can be obtained and photographs recorded. Some foreign objects can be removed.
This excellent tool enhances our diagnostic capabilities as well as providing a potential alternative to invasive surgery.
LASER SURGERY
The surgical laser uses an invisible beam of high energy light to cut, cauterize or vaporize tissues. It replaces a scalpel but also does much more. By sealing tissues as it cuts, several important benefits result. There is less bleeding during surgery. This maintains a clearer surgical field, allowing the surgeon to work more quickly, thus shortening anesthesia time. Conventional surgery allows lymphatic vessels to leak fluid into damaged tissue. By sealing them, the laser minimizes postoperative swelling. From your pet's perspective, the most important benefit is the sealing of nerve endings, resulting in significantly less postoperative pain. All these advantages lead to a faster, more comfortable surgical recovery.
While laser is not appropriate for every surgery, it is a valuable adjunct to most soft tissue procedures, and to the initial surgical approach to bones and joints. Ask our Doctors and staff to answer any additional questions you might have.
DENTAL CARE
Your pet's dental health is key to a long and healthy life. Dental disease is a source of chronic, unrelenting pain for your pet. In addition, bacteria from dental infection can spread to other parts of the body, and lead to life threatening disease of the kidneys, liver and heart. We recommend good home dental hygiene for your pet which includes a combination of brushing, diets to promote dental health, dental chews, and rinses, as well a periodic professional dental cleaning just like your dentist does for you.
A dental cleaning is a multistep process not just to clean the teeth, but to identify and treat dental disease. We do a thorough exam of the teeth looking for loose or broken teeth, periodontal pockets, inflammation and recession of gums, root abscesses, and oral wounds or tumors. We record this information on your pet's dental chart, and formulate a treatment plan that is customized for your pet's needs. Each plan includes thorough cleaning using a combination of rotosonic and hand scaling, a polish, and fluoride treatment of the teeth. Additional treatments may include surgical extraction of severely diseased or damaged teeth, and prescriptions for oral antibiotics and enzymatic rinses.
Advances in knowledge and technology have enabled veterinary professionals to provide longer, healthier and more comfortable lives for your pets. Diagnosing disease is often detective work, with each diagnostic test adding a piece to the puzzle until a final diagnosis can be made. Alternative ways to gather this evidence greatly enhance our ability to diagnose quickly and accurately, and initiate early treatment that may make the difference between treatment success or failure. Our mission is to provide the best knowledge, instrumentation, and medical practice available to deliver optimum care to your pet.
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(714) 776-7387
Hours of Operation:
Mon.-Fri. 8:00 A.M. -5:00 P.M.
Sat. 8:00 A.M. - 5:00 P.M.
