Methodology

This page sets out how the site was built and how a fact gets onto it, so that the checks can be judged rather than trusted. Nothing here is a promise about clinical care; it is a description of an editorial process.

Where the subject comes from

The pages were not chosen by taste. Queries around cat dental care were collected, sorted into clusters by the intent behind them, and each cluster became one page. A cluster with no distinct intent was merged rather than padded into a page of its own. For every page the top results were read to see what the page had to answer and where they fell short; that reading is recorded in the page's brief, and the brief fixes the word range the page has to hit.

Where the facts come from

Only primary or institutional sources are used: the AVMA, AAHA's dental care guidelines, the VOHC, Cornell's Feline Health Center, the Merck Veterinary Manual and, for prices, the published schedules of named clinics and providers. Blogs, forums, retailer copy and other people's round-ups are read but not cited as evidence. A price is taken only from a page that prints it, with the provider named, and where two providers publish different bands both are kept rather than averaged.

The fact database

Each usable statement is stored as a record: an identifier, the entity, the field, the value, the source URL, a verbatim quote, the check date, the status and the period it stays valid. A draft may carry a number only if that number appears in a record, and a quotation on the page is the quotation in the record. Where a source is about dogs, the page says so instead of passing the line off as feline. Where a claim comes from the writer rather than a source, it is marked as the editorial judgement it is — for example, the shape of the clinic market on the near-me page.

The two checks

Each finished draft goes to two independent reads at once. The first compares the text with the database alone, with no browsing, and lists every claim without a record, every number that differs and every attribution that does not hold. The second reads the final text against the live web and works through at least a fifth of the numeric claims and every generalisation the page makes. Both produce a written report. A page is not built until both reports are in, and each defect is either repaired in the text or the sentence is removed. The reports stay in the working folder with the page.

What the checks catch and what they do not

They catch a misplaced attribution, a quote trimmed past its meaning, a generalisation the sources do not carry and a number that has drifted. They do not catch a source that is itself wrong, and they do not test the page on a cat. They also cannot tell you whether a clinic near you follows the guidance — the near-me page gives the questions that get at that, but the answer comes on the phone.

Dates and corrections

Every page carries the date its sources were checked, and the whole set was reviewed on 2026-11-12. The pages are re-read when a source changes; a guideline revision, a new fee schedule or a moved URL all count. Errors are reported to editor@catteethcleaning.com and fixed at source, with the date changed. The rule and the reply are on the contact page.

Figures that stay uncertain

Some of what owners want most cannot be fixed to one number. A cleaning price depends on the city, the clinic, the cat's age and what the x-ray finds, and the pages say so rather than publishing a national figure. Whether a given product works depends on how it is used, which is why the products page leans on the VOHC seal instead of a ranking. Those gaps are named, not smoothed over.

Cat Teeth Cleaning. Methodology. Reviewed 2026-11-12.