Salt & Sea Veterinary Hospital

- 34249 Pacific Coast Hwy, Dana Point, CA 92629

Emergency Veterinarian Service

Preventive healthcare involves a multi-faceted approach that includes veterinary evaluation of your pet's overall health and risks of disease or other health problems. Based on the findings, your vet will provide you with recommendations for your pet's nutrition, dental care, vaccinations and more.

Veterinary medicine is the branch of medicine that deals with the prevention, control, diagnosis, and treatment of disease, disorder, and injury in animals. Along with this, it deals with animal rearing, husbandry, breeding, research on nutrition, and product development.

Veterinary medicine, also called veterinary science, medical specialty concerned with the prevention, control, diagnosis, and treatment of diseases affecting the health of domestic and wild animals and with the prevention of transmission of animal diseases to people.

The emergency veterinarian is a specialist that provides medical care to animal patients at animal hospitals and emergency clinics. It's also typical for emergency veterinarians to work with veterinary internal medicine specialists and surgeons at larger veterinary hospitals.

Urgent care falls between emergency care and regular vet visits. This is for pet owners with a pet in non-life threatening condition, seeking urgent medical attention.

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Vaccinations prevent diseases that can be passed between animals and also from animals to people. Diseases prevalent in wildlife, such as rabies and distemper, can infect unvaccinated pets. In many areas, local or state ordinances require certain vaccinations of household pets.

Vaccination offers an effective, inexpensive way to prevent a deadly disease from harming the animals in their care. These medicines are foundational to any animal health program, with the benefits extending even to public health.

Regular Wellness Exams Are Important. Early detection reduces the severity of diseases like kidney disease, arthritis, diabetes, dental disease, obesity, and ear infection.

Nutritional counseling is a great way to educate and inform pet owners about the importance of maintaining a healthy diet for their pet.

In most cases, preventative care requires a routine visit to your vet to complete a wellness exam, get needed vaccinations, treat or test for potential parasites, and receive prescription medications.

Regular pet preventive care helps your vet identify your pet's particular risk factors – whether it's age, lifestyle, weight, or genetics, and quickly get on top of any problem. Early detection of disease and intervention allows you and your vet to decide the best course of care for your pet.

At each visit, your veterinarian will weigh your pet and offer suggestions for the best type of food and treats for optimum growth and vigor. An appropriate diet is necessary for a healthy puppy or kitten and good quality pet food is important.

PARASITES(Worms) Fecal exams and regular deworming are the best way to prevent parasitic disease, and the transmission of intestinal parasites from pets to people (zoonosis).

Flea and tick prevention consists of a variety of products used to control flea and/or tick infestations on your pet and to prevent infestations inside your home. Fleas are small insects that are parasitic; they feed on blood from animals and/or people.

Heartworm preventives come in different forms, including monthly chewable pills and topical “spot on” medications, as well as an injectable medication that is given every 6 or 12 months. Heartworm preventives are available only by prescription from veterinarians.

Dental or periodontal disease affects the teeth, gums and the support structures that surround your pet's teeth. It begins with a simple plaque buildup on the tooth enamel which contain bacteria and food particles. If not addressed, it remains on the tooth surface and eventually hardens into tartar.

Dental cleaning are recommended to prevent the development of the periodontal disease, which is caused by plaque. Most dental procedures are performed under general anesthesia, your veterinarian should conduct a thorough physical examination beforehand to ensure the safest option for your pet.

Dental health is very important to your pet’s overall health, and dental problems can cause, or be caused by, other health problems. A physical exam combined with appropriate laboratory work can determine if infection in the mouth has occurred. Schedule your pet’s dental exam today.

A Microchip ID is a small computer chip, about the size of a grain of rice. It is implanted under the animal's skin, between the shoulder blades. Unlike other forms of identification, a Microchip ID cannot be removed or lost. Very often, pets slip out of their collars or lose tags.

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Veterinarians use a variety of veterinary tools to diagnose disease, to monitor disease progression or response to therapy, and to screen for the presence of underlying disease in apparently healthy animals.

Veterinary surgeons in general practice carry out a wide range of tasks from promoting and maintaining the health of animals through to diagnosing and treating sick and injured animals. Other tasks include: Operating on sick or injured animals. Neuter animals to prevent them from breeding.

X-rays are a form of electromagnetic radiation, similar to visible light. Unlike light, however, x-rays have higher energy and can pass through most objects, including the body. Medical x-rays are used to generate images of tissues and structures inside the body.

A routine wellness exam is a physical examination or checkup for your pet. Physical exams help to keep your pet healthy by giving your vet regular opportunities to check your pet for early signs of disease, and to monitor your pet's overall health.

Vaccination of dogs is the practice of animal vaccination applied to dogs. Programs in this field have contributed both to the health of dogs and to the public health.

Spaying is the removal of the female pet's reproductive organs, while neutering refers to the procedure for male pets. When a female dog is spayed, the vet removes her ovaries and usually her uterus as well. When neutering a dog, both testicles are removed.

We provide many surgical services at our clinic, ranging from routine to advanced procedures. Taking all necessary precautions to ensure that your pet receives a safe anesthetic. We perform a physical exam and preanesthetic testing before surgery and monitor your pet during and after surgery.

Flea pills are oral insecticides that help control, treat, and prevent flea infestations in dogs. There are several different types of flea pills out there commonly prescribed by veterinarians. Each has a different active chemical ingredient that targets fleas in a unique way.