Surgery

We offer advance surgical techniques and veterinary state of the art technology for your pets.  All patients are carefully examined for safety procedures, and anesthetics are specifically tailored for you pet according with age, sex and any other disease such as diabetes, liver, kidney failure.  Surgical procedures include; routine spays, neuters, declaws, tumor/ growth removal, orthopedics such as external fixator, plating, intramedulary pins, Cruciate ligament surgery with tightrope method. Femoral head Ostheotomy, and more. Dr. Florez has been practicing veterinary medicine and surgery since his graduation in 1994 and has performed thousands of surgical procedures on large and small animals.

If you have questions or concerns about any procedure do not hesitate to call us and make an appointment to make sure your pet is a surgical candidate. Or if you have any concerns about surgery we can explain all the process so you can be at ease while Aztec Animal Hospital takes care of your pet.

Cranial Cruciate Ligament (CCL) rupture is the most common injury in the dogs knee. Most dogs require surgical repair of the torn ligament depending on the grade of tear. During the years many type of procedures have been developed to stabilize the knee. From simple and less invasive extra capsular imbricate suture to more invasive procedures such as the Tibial Plateau leveling Ostheotomy(TPLO) and the Tibial Tuberosity Advancement (TTA). 
We use Fiberwire and Tightrope technique for Cranial Cruciate stabilization surgery. Video for surgery of Tightrope procedure for CCL We believe on less invasive procedure is better for anyone. The goal of the procedure is to have your pet to normal activities without the discomfort of the unstable knee that causes pain every time your pet moves.