Some sedation dentistry treatments require that dentists make house calls.
Especially when you are Freckles, a 16-year-old liger (a hybrid cross between a male lion and a tigress), who is one of the oldest ligers in the world.
When she was rescued from a failed backyard sanctuary in Mississippi, handlers noticed that she had a big hole in her jowl.
She was given antibiotics in case it was just an injury, but once she became calm enough in her new rescue environment the staff noticed that she was suffering from several broken teeth.
Caged cats will often break off their teeth trying to chew their way out of their prison cells and when she was left behind to die in Mississippi.
Luckily a dentist came to her rescue and Big Cat Rescue filmed the sedation dentistry procedure —