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This is so true. All the reading and research I've done have left me totally drained. You can't really pursue every possibility. There are too many. Just the number of supplements that could help makes my head spin.It can have SO many triggers.
The original vet we chose for Lucy thought it was very important to do a biopsy while they had her under for the extractions. There are different types of stomatitis and she wanted to know exactly what we were dealing with (and I believe some are not immune mediated.)
Sadly the vet we had so much hope in had to leave her practice because she found out she had cancer about a month after we met her. Her partner took over. Though he has a good heart and I'm sure is competent in many ways, he was not as thorough as the vet we chose. He did NOT do the biopsy or the x-rays that are essential for determining that all the root was removed. I signed an estimate that included those things and fully expected they would be done. We'll never know how the surgery would have turned out with the excellent technique that is required. I just have to hope that there is some benefit to having most of the teeth out (those areas do look better.) And maybe he got lucky and got all the roots. Wish we had that biopsy, though.