The dentist who travels around the world to fix ANIMALS' teeth... from deadly hippos to an adorable little hedgehog

Being a dentist is not always an easy job. Performing painful surgery on grumpy patients can test the patience - and nerves - of even the most experienced.

But when that patient is a six-tonne elephant needing root canal or a lion with toothache, it makes the task all the more trickier.

However, for Dr. Gerhard Steenkamp, it is all in a days work. The South African is one of the world's top vet dentists, operating on some of the wilds most ferocious predators.

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Tough job: Dr Gerhard Steenkamp is one of the world's top vet dentists, operating on some of the wild's most ferocious predators. He is pictured working on a hippopotamus' teeth in Pretoria

Talented: Dr Steenkamp operates on some of the wild's most ferocious predators. This the South African dentist in surgery with a bear

Global: Dr. Steenkamp's work has seen him travel to China, Egypt, UAE, and across Africa - performing around 500 surgeries a year. He is pictured operating on an injured elephant




















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