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Bear Gets Unique Dental Work
7/7/2025 | 1m 11sVideo has Closed Captions
Watch as a veterinary dentist gives the Lake Superior Zoo's bear a first-of-its-kind metal crown.
Watch as a veterinary dentist gives the Lake Superior Zoo's bear a first-of-its-kind metal crown.
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The Slice
Bear Gets Unique Dental Work
7/7/2025 | 1m 11sVideo has Closed Captions
Watch as a veterinary dentist gives the Lake Superior Zoo's bear a first-of-its-kind metal crown.
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Learn Moreabout PBS online sponsorshipMy name is doctor Grace Brown.
I'm a board certified veterinary What was going on today is we treated a non intact restoration in a Alaskan with a full metal tilite crown, today we made history, for two major a The first aspect was to actually success of Tundra's previous root canal, which was performed in 2023 by me and my vet team, my vet dental team.
There are only one other paper published showing the success rate of a be So that's pretty incredible in i because a lot of bears get lost to follow up our don't have a de come back and retake images.
So this was a successful root canal from two years ago.
The other thing that was amazing is we placed a full metal crown for a non intact restoration to provide a durable tooth for t rest of his life, which is prett And so the first one in the worl The slice from PBS North,
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