Dental health is incredibly important for your pet’s overall health and quality of life. In order to properly care for your pet’s dental needs, it’s important to understand how your pet’s oral ecosystem works. In dogs, the tongue helps guide food and water into the throat while their teeth tear and grind through their food. In cats, their jaws are unable to move sideways so they use their tongue and teeth to swallow their food in chunks. One key variable to the health of our pet’s oral health is their saliva; it is the oil to their oral engine.
Understanding Dental Issues:
The beginning stages of dental disease are often invisible to the eye in the form of plaque. Veterinary Dental Specialists of Wisconsin define plaque as a “film that adheres to the teeth and is virtually invisible” (Plaque, Tartar, and Calculus in Dogs and Cats; Understanding, Prevention, and Treatment, 2025). Tartar indicates a more advanced stage of dental disease that is visible to the eye and requires professional removal.
The concern with tartar and plaque is that their impacts aren’t just visual. As bacteria calcifies and mineralizes onto the teeth, your pet may experience trouble eating, bad breath, swelling or bleeding around the gums and changes in their energy levels.
How does InClover’s Dental supplement work?:
If we look back to how our pet’s saliva works as the oil to their oral engine, our dental powder acts as a way to improve the quality of that oil. Imagine cleaning a window with only water, it would streak and spread the smudges. If we add a few helpers to your pet’s oral ecosystem, it begins to create a much more powerful solution in their mouths to combat harmful bacteria, support daily oral care routines, and introduce re-mineralizing properties to their teeth.
Our Dental Powder uses a 100% active and natural proprietary formula of goat milk whey, enzymes, saponins, catechins and other polyphenolic compounds, kelp, coconut, yucca, anise and prebiotic to work synergistically supporting daily oral hygiene when used consistently.
What about brushing?
According to the American Veterinary Medical Association (AVMA), brushing your pet’s teeth regularly is the number one recommended action you can take in keeping their teeth healthy. Naomi Hoyer, D.V.M from the Colorado State University’s Veterinary Teaching Hospital states “The key to managing dental disease in dogs and cats is prevention” (Hoyer, 2020). But some pets do not tolerate brushing well. If attempting to brush teeth results in scratches, bites, and significant stress to your animal, it may not be an option. The good news is that there are other ways to proactively address your pet’s oral and dental health.
So, can giving your pet a supplement actually help their dental health?
For pet owners who struggle with regular brushing or are looking to add additional support to their pet’s dental health, our Dental powder is designed as an easy, all-natural solution to oral care. Just sprinkle it on top of your pet’s food or mix it in with a bit of water.
The most effective approach to your pet’s dental health is a collaborative routine including:
- Regular veterinary checkups.
- Brushing frequently where possible.
- Using InClover’s Dental powder daily, at every meal.
By combining these actions, you can focus vet visits on your pet’s dental health from the perspective of prevention rather than intervention.
To go deeper into the science and formulation process, hear directly from our CEO in this video:
