February is Pet Dental Health month. We often have inquiries about the benefits to feeding a raw diet, specifically how it can improve pets dental health. With new emerging diets and products on the pet food market, it can be challenging to navigate and figure out what the best option is for your pet to improve not just their dental health, but overall health and wellbeing.
Dental Benefits from Raw
Feeding your pet a raw diet is the most effective way to ensure your pet doesn’t have dental issues, and it can even reverse some existing damage due to a kibble fed diet. One of the most common misconceptions is that feeding a kibble diet is beneficial to pets' dental health due to the “crunch” associated with the kibble. This can result in the chipping and cracking of teeth, just like with humans when we eat a super crunchy food. If it is uncomfortable for us humans, it is bound to be just as uncomfortable for our pets.
The key reason that feeding a raw diet is beneficial for dental health is that a complete and balanced diet, such as the BARF Diet, is formulated on the basis that dogs are descendants of wolves, and should be fed a diet that reflects this.