Yet, for many, it is very easy to neglect routine care for their horses' teeth. Neglect of your equine's teeth can have the same disastrous results as neglect of your own teeth. Without good teeth, a horse can't properly masticate its food. Debilitation, loss of energy, and overall reduction in physical health follow. Actually, a horse uses its teeth more than a human does.
Many humans eat three meals a day at spaced intervals.
By contrast, horses in the wild and on pasture might spend 10-12 hours per day grazing. The same is true of horses in paddocks or box stalls on free choice hay. They will eat a little at a time, but will be munching often. Humans have interfered with the horse's normal pattern of existence. Many confined horses are fed a highly charged ration that is consumed in two or three short eating sessions per day.