Stray with cavities

I took another stray to the vet, no teeth were rotten some had a little tartar but not bad. The vet said he has 2 small cavities but they don't do fillings on animals so basically all they can do is wait till they start causing pain and then pull them. Is this true?

I read more and it sounds like cavities are another name for Feline odontoclastic resorptive lesion, which slowly eats away at the tooth.

I'm worried because this is an outdoor cat otherwise it would be easy to take him for yearly dental checkups to avoid him feeling pain. Outside its just so hard to tell about his teeth...

I shall ask a mod to move your question to the Health forum.  I think you will get more answers there.

And it will be visible here to your question got moved, so any of Feral forumites who knows about teeths cavities will respond too.

Good luck!

StefanZ said:

I shall ask a mod to move your question to the Health forum.  I think you will get more answers there.
And it will be visible here to your question got moved, so any of Feral forumites who knows about teeths cavities will respond too.

Good luck!

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I had no luck there either hopefully someone new will see it.