Motorized instruments can substantially shorten the time it takes to perform specific dental procedures which can make it easier for the horse as well as the equine dental practitioner especially when reducing large malocclusions such as the “step” pictured below.

 

 

Those practitioners that prefer hand floats are accustomed to (by choice or legal constraints) equilibrating a patient’s mouth without sedation, working by feel, rather than by sight using a full-mouth speculum.

 

 

Some dentists employ motorized equipment, finishing with hand floats.  New motorized instrumentation continues to be offered through a wide variety of sources, developed and made by equine dental practitioners for the purpose of providing large numbers of horses with service and to save the the considerable physical exertion required to “float” a horse by hand.