Topaz (13) has only a couple of mouth teeth left and her canines, unfortunately because of her lack of chewing teeth she does get hard chews etc, as a result her teeth are quite bad, I am very reluctant to take her to the vets as I know they with suggest anaesthetic and teeth cleaning, but I worry because of her age and also as she suffers with Pancreatitis I am terrified of stressing her, and she gets REALLY stressed at the vets, she wont stop barking. I am stumped what to do, and am desperate to know of anything I can try to remove the plaque, tried using a finger nail to get behind it, but it wont budge and she is a nightmare very headshy and any head work is always a major battle, again stressing her....any ideas. I did wonder why they could do the teeth under sedation, but no-one seems to offer that.........