Author

The pages here are written by an editorial process rather than a named clinician. That is deliberate: no veterinary surgeon reviewed the drafts, so the site does not put a face and a qualification under the articles and imply otherwise. What follows is what the process actually is, so the reader can weigh it.

What the writing is

It is plain-language summarising of primary veterinary sources. The sentences are built from the wording of those documents, and where a document gives a figure, that figure is the one used. Nothing is added from memory or from a general impression of what vets do. The sources are the American Veterinary Medical Association, the American Animal Hospital Association dental guidelines, the Veterinary Oral Health Council, Cornell University's Feline Health Center and the Merck Veterinary Manual, and each is linked on the page it supports.

What it is not

It is not a clinical opinion. A page can tell you that the AVMA describes anesthesia risk as very low and far outweighed by the benefits; it cannot tell you that your cat will be one of the low-risk ones. A page can list the signs the AVMA publishes; it cannot decide which of them your cat has. That judgement belongs to the veterinarian who can see the mouth.

Who keeps it honest

Two checks sit between the draft and the page. One reads every number and claim against the fact database, with a verbatim quote and a URL for each; the other reads the finished page against the live web and flags anything a source does not carry. Both write a report, and the page is not built until both reports exist. Every defect they raise is either fixed in the text or the claim is cut. The methodology page describes the checks in detail.

What a correction does

A reader who finds a wrong figure or an overreaching sentence can send it to [email protected]. The claim is taken back to its source; if the source does not support it, the text is corrected and the check date changes. Corrections are not argued away. The rule is on the contact page.

Dates

The whole set was reviewed on 2026-11-12, and every source on every page carries that date. A source that has moved or changed since then is the thing to report, because a stale citation is the most likely way for a page here to go wrong.

Cat Teeth Cleaning. Author. Reviewed 2026-11-12.