Ohio Lab Helps Take a Bite Out of Crime

Moskey Dental Laboratories in Cleveland, OH, fabricates four non-precious alloy crowns to help a police dog get back on his beat.

A police dog without teeth is like a lamp without a light bulb: it just won't work. So when Killian, a German Shepherd with the Ashtabula County Sheriff's Office in Ohio, damaged his canine teeth by chewing on his metal bowl, he was at risk of losing his teeth—and his job.

Killian's veterinarian asked her father, dentist Brad Knapp, to perform root canals on all four teeth and asked his laboratory, Moskey Dental Laboratories in Cleveland, if it could fabricate crowns for a dog; the lab immediately accepted the challenge.

It turns out this wasn't the lab's first experience fabricating crowns for a four-legged patient. John Hickey, Moskey's Technical Director and Fixed Department Manager, was trained in the U.S. Air Force where dogs would often receive crowns to replace damaged teeth. Since he has worked...