Cribbing is a compulsive behavioral disorder in which a horse habitually bites down on a horizontal surface with its incisors and sucks in air, often making a grunting or gulping noise. Interventions address concerns that cribbing wears down the incisors and is linked to issues of unthriftiness, poor performance, dental issues, gas colic and strangulating lesions such as epiploic foramen entrapment, says Laura Riggs, DVM, PhD, DACVS. She discusses the most commonly used surgical method to lessen the behavior, a modified Forssell’s procedure.
Source: DVM 360, October 25, 2016.
Dr. Riggs discusses a version of the modified Forssell’s procedure performed with a veterinary laser that has had positive results with good cosmesis