Bad breath is not a personality trait — it is bacteria living under the gum line. Ultrasonic scaling, digital dental X-rays and extractions under monitored anesthesia, currently half price: cats AED 349, dogs AED 499.
Almost nobody books a dental. They book a check-up and mention, halfway through, that the breath has turned. That smell is bacteria feeding in the pocket between tooth and bone, and by the time you notice it from across the sofa the roots have usually been infected for months. Around 80% of dogs and cats show dental disease by their third birthday.
Pet dental care in Dubai at Petbook Veterinary Clinic in Al Quoz 3 means the whole procedure, not a cosmetic polish: oral exam, ultrasonic scaling above and below the gum line, polishing, full-mouth digital X-rays, and extraction of teeth that cannot be saved. Scaling is half price right now — AED 349 for a cat and AED 499 for a dog, blood work included.
Every dental starts in our in-house laboratory: we check how the kidneys and liver are working before a single drug is given, and your pet is monitored from induction to waking up. If a tooth broke tonight, or one side of the face is swollen, our emergency line is answered 24/7 — an abscess does not wait for Monday.
Kidney, liver and red-cell values run in our own lab the same morning, and vitals watched from induction to recovery.
Most of every tooth is buried in bone. X-rays find dead roots and bone loss under enamel that looks perfectly normal.
Cats AED 349, dogs AED 499 — the figure is on the page, not quoted after the procedure.
Fractured, loose and abscessed teeth are dealt with under the same anesthetic, so there is no second sedation.
Reviews pulled from our public Google profile. They are general clinic reviews — none of them name dentistry specifically, and we have not edited them.
I highly recommend this veterinary clinic! They truly care about pets as if they were their own babies. Every time my cats have been sick, the team has always followed up to check on their recovery & see if they needed anything else. That level of care & compassion means so much to me 🤍
I had a wonderful experience at Petbook Veterinary Clinic in Al Quoz with my 9-month-old male Turkish Angora cat, Meiko. A special thank you to Dr. Emad and Miss Charrie for their excellent care, kindness, patience, and professionalism.
I had all three of my cats vaccinated at this clinic, and I couldn't be happier with the service. The veterinarians and staff were very professional, gentle, and caring with my cats, making the entire experience smooth and stress-free.
One patient, one scaling session
Photographed on our own dental table in Al Quoz. The yellow-brown crust on the left is what was pressing on the gum line.
Scaling is at 50% off: AED 349 for a cat and AED 499 for a dog, under monitored anesthesia, with the pre-anesthetic blood work included rather than added on. What we cannot price in advance is extractions and gum treatment, because that depends entirely on what the X-rays show — so it is quoted after the exam and before anything starts. Message us on WhatsApp for a same-day quote, or see the rest of our published fees on the vet prices page.
Scaling and polishing under monitored anesthesia, home the same day.
349 AED
Same procedure, longer table time — small jaws and big jaws both take the full protocol.
499 AED
A dental is a half-day admission, not a walk-in appointment. This is the order it runs in.
The vet grades what is visible, names the teeth that worry us and puts a written estimate in your hand. Nothing is booked until you have seen the number.
Kidney and liver values, red cells and clotting, run in our own lab that morning. If a result is off we postpone and deal with that first.
The protocol is chosen for your pet's age, weight and those blood results. Heart rate, oxygen, blood pressure and temperature are watched continuously — not glanced at.
Roughly two-thirds of every tooth sits below the gum. X-rays change the plan more often than any other step: a tooth can look clean and be dead at the root.
An ultrasonic scaler clears tartar above the gum and, more importantly, inside the pocket below it, where periodontal disease lives. Polishing smooths the enamel afterwards.
Teeth beyond saving come out with local anesthetic on top of the general, and dissolvable sutures. Most pets go home the same day on pain relief, eating soft food that evening.
Real photographs from our Al Quoz clinic — the toy breeds and flat faces whose teeth are full size in a jaw that is not.
So it deserves a straight answer rather than reassurance. No anesthetic is zero-risk. What a clinic can do is measure the risk before taking it — blood work first, a protocol matched to age and organ function, a protected airway, warmth, fluids and continuous monitoring. Set against that, a mouth carrying infected roots for another two years is rarely the safer choice.
Periodontal disease is the same illness everywhere. What differs in Dubai is which breeds live here, what they chew, and how long a painful mouth goes unnoticed.
Persians, Exotics and Himalayans fill Dubai's buildings, and a shortened upper jaw means rotated, overlapping teeth that trap food from kittenhood.
A Yorkie, Pom or Chihuahua carries the same 42 teeth as a Labrador in a jaw the width of a thumb. Crowding and early tooth loss follow.
A cat can carry a fractured tooth or a resorptive lesion for months and never miss a meal. Most owners find out under anesthesia.
The line we hear most is that kibble keeps teeth clean. Most kibble shatters well above the gum line, nowhere near the part that causes disease.
Owners here freeze bones and hand out ice cubes to cool dogs down in July. A slab fracture of the big upper chewing tooth is the break we see most.
It is the first thing owners ask, usually after seeing anesthesia-free cleaning advertised elsewhere in the city. Awake scraping polishes what you can see and leaves the disease underneath.
It is ordinary periodontal disease, found late — the mouth is the one part of a pet nobody checks at home.
There is no single interval, and anyone who offers you one has not looked in the mouth. A Yorkie and a Labrador age their teeth at completely different speeds, and brushing at home shifts the answer more than anything else. We grade the teeth at every visit and tell you when a dental is due.
Waiting is not free: a tooth that needed a clean at four can need extracting at six, and extractions add table time, anesthesia and cost.
Pets rarely stop eating because a tooth hurts — they change how they eat. These are what owners notice first, without connecting it to teeth.
Age is not a disease, and thirteen on its own is not a reason to refuse. What decides it is the pre-anesthetic blood work, the heart and chest examination and the blood pressure reading. In an older dog we run those first, tailor the protocol to what they show, and keep table time as short as the mouth allows. The alternative — leaving infected roots in place for the rest of his life — is rarely the safer option.
For a cleaning that reaches below the gum line, yes. Periodontal disease sits in the pocket between tooth and bone, and no awake dog will let a scaler work in there, or hold still for X-rays. Awake scraping removes the visible brown, which is exactly why the teeth look better afterwards while the disease carries on underneath.
At Petbook, scaling under monitored anesthesia is AED 499 for a dog and AED 349 for a cat while the 50% offer runs, with pre-anesthetic blood work included. Extractions and oral surgery depend on what the dental X-rays show, so they are quoted after the exam rather than guessed at over the phone. Message us on WhatsApp for a same-day quote.
You can chip some of it off above the gum with a scraper, and plenty of videos will show you how. It does not treat the disease, it leaves a roughened surface that collects plaque faster than before, and one flinch puts a sharp instrument next to an eye. Daily brushing with pet toothpaste is the home care that genuinely works — never human toothpaste, which is not made to be swallowed.
Small and flat-faced breeds, because the teeth are standard size and the jaw is not. Yorkshire terriers, Pomeranians, Chihuahuas, Maltese, Dachshunds and Poodles are the usual list, alongside Pugs and French bulldogs whose teeth sit rotated and crowded. In Dubai that describes a large share of the dogs we see.
Tell us what your pet needs — we confirm on WhatsApp right away. Emergencies are answered 24/7 on +971 54 888 3686.
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