Valiant gets his teeth floated by Dr. Alldredge at Southwest Equine.  They were sharp but looked nice and even.  Valiant was very proud of his teeth after the procedure.	Power tools with files are used to smooth out the teeth.  Horses need maintenance on their teeth because they grow their entire lives and in captivity horses don't wear them down correctly causing sharp points and pain on their cheeks.	After getting fresh xrays of Valiant's feet Codi Tripp goes to work on making adjustments to the shoes on Valiant - the objective is to start rotating the bone back to the correct angle.
Valiant is lined up against the wall so that he has more security when balancing on his other feet.  He does get nervous enough to require some sedation but painkillers and nerve blocks were not necessary this time - exciting progress!	Codi takes more of the toe off the foot that is deformed to help it obtain more proper shape.	This xray is significant in that the coffin bone is no longer close to coming thru the bottom of the hoof and the bone is showing more density.  We need the tip of that bone to move upwards to 'derotate' the coffin bone for better bone alignment.
Same thing on this side - need to reduce the toe and encourage the coffin bone to rotate into a proper alignment with the pastern.  His bones are showing improvements from a mineralization but there are still significant areas of arthritis.	Thankfully his hind feet have not rotated but he is showing some signs of stress found in them.  It's just the right time for getting them trimmed.	His other hind foot - both have adequate sole cushions and are not showing rotation.  His front feet are going to be the focus based on this finding.

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