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He then balances the cheek teeth (molars), to increase front-to-back motion. He does this through maximizing the surface-to-surface contact while maintaining the natural texture and good cutting edges across the whole tooth. This is vital for the horse’s well-being, not only for proper digestion, but even more importantly, for a balanced body through a balanced TMJ.

While working on them, Spencer allows the horses to lower their head into a relaxed position, which in turn allows the TMJ and neck vertebrae to stay in a more natural and relaxed state, as well as creating the ability of the jaw to move as far forward as possible.

There are a couple of major differences between Natural Balance Dentistry and other forms of equine dentistry. The first is that there are never any power tools used, everything is done by hand instead, with some of the most precise tools in the industry. The second is the focus of the work is not on the pathology, or the symptoms—such as hooks, ramps, waves—in the molars, which are all signs of a jaw that is out of alignment and not the real cause of the problem. By continually removing the symptoms, you also reverse the natural bite plane of the molars, which causes instability of the TMJ. This, in turn, affects the whole horse negatively and is what had happened to Rusty.