Veterinary orthopedist Randy Boudrieau takes a page from human medicine using 10 titanium plates narrower than a pencil torepair fractured facial bones. When owner Janine Stuczko first saw her 4-year-old Labrador retriever, Burton,after a car hit him, she opened his bloodied mouth because she thought he had eaten glass. "I heard all the bones in his muzzle grinding, like fingernails on a chalkboard," she says. "It was awful. His muzzle was squished down to his eye socket."
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