Experience: I brought a bear back to life
I was in India, performing dentistry on my first animal patient, and it was supposed to be a straightforward operation I’ve been a dentist for 40 years.
I spend most of my time treating patients at my surgery in Chichester, West Sussex.
When I studied to become a dentist in the 1980s, I didn’t think I’d be getting my hands anywhere near the teeth of any exotic animals.
Twenty years later, in 2000, that changed.
A patient of mine, Alan Knight, the CEO of International Animal Rescue (IAR), showed me photographs of the inside of a bear’s mouth.
The bear was called Jojo and his teeth had been broken off by poachers.
Some of the teeth were too rotten to be saved – if left untreated, Jojo would become more prone to infection and abscesses.
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