I'm not from Ohio, but I was going to say the exact same thing as Noodles did, that it's much better all the way around if you take your parrot/bird to either a Certified Avian Vet or an Avian Specialist Vet for any "grooming" that you need/want done, such as getting their toenails trimmed. I don't know what species of parrot/bird you have, but you can also save yourself the money and save your bird the stress, or at least make it necessary much less-often, by providing a couple of cement-perches inside of his cage, as they keep their toenails trimmed very, very well (I'm talking about an actual cement perch, not the "sand paper" covers that you slip over a dowel-perch, but rather the larger perches that are actually made out of cement or other rough material and that clamp/screw on to the cage bars)...I clip all of my bird's toenails myself, it's not difficult to do depending on what type of bird you have...However, if you don't feel comfortable doing it, then you shouldn't do it...Same goes for wing-clipping (if you clip your bird's wings), it's not at all difficult to do once you properly learn how to do it.
As far as "beak trimming/grinding", I am not a proponent of it, and am actually highly against it. It's a personal decision that only a bird's owner can make, and I totally respect that, but I always feel it irresponsible if I don't mention that if your bird's beak is over-grown enough that it needs trimming, first of all, this too can be helped a lot by the cement-perches, as well as adding a really nice, big Mineral Block, such as the large, pink Strawberry-flavored ones, or the big, yellow, pineapple-flavored ones. They keep their beaks really smooth and keep them from over-growing...and if your bird's beak is chronically over-grown, then you should probably have a blood-test done to check their liver function, as this is the #1 sign of Fatty-Liver-Disease..Now some species are more prone to over-grown beaks, or rather beaks that tend to grow in a "uneven" way, and sometimes these can't be helped by anything else besides trimming...And that's fine, but I don't ever advise having a bird's beak trimmed by any "motorized" tools, such as the typical rotary-tools they use, like a Dremel. I personally know of 2 people who's perfectly healthy, happy, non-stressed parrots went to Avian Specialists who only treat birds (not an "exotics vet") and had their beaks trimmed/ground by the Avian Vet with a Dremel or similar rotary power tool. One bird was sedated with short-term gas (very safe), and the other was simply toweled and held by a Tech while the Avian Vet quickly did the trim. The one that was toweled died in the vet's office during the procedure, they say from stress, which makes sense. The bird that was sedated with short-term gas woke-up fine, left and went home, and the owner found that he had tons and tons of dust from the beak trimming up in his nostrils, in his eyes, and inside of his beak, both in his mouth and also caked inside the hole under the bottom of the beak. The bird seemed tired, came home and took a nap immediately inside of his cage, and then came out of the cage that night, which is when he found all of the dust from his beak...He started wheezing while breathing almost immediately after he went to sleep for the nap, and was so loud that my friend could hear him wheezing while he slept from another room (this was a Shamrock Macaw, so a large bird)...He started to cough later that night as well, and the next day he called his Avian Specialist and they told him to bring the bird right back in, so he left work and took a half-day off, went home to pick him up to take him to the vet, and found him dead in his cage when he got home around 10:00 a.m. He took him to the PSU Animal Diagnostic Lab/Incinerator for an independent necropsy...They started the necropsy by taking blood, then taking several swabs/cultures from different places, and then they did a plain x-ray, and on the x-ray they immediately saw that both lungs were filled with a densely-packed substance...They opened up his chest, opened both lungs, and found that both of his lungs were completely full of dust from the beak-trim with the Dremel, so much so that they said they didn't know he survived as long as he did, as they didn't think he would have been able to inflate/deflate either of his lungs at all...Then they looked at his air-sacs, and sure enough the most superior air sacs were also full of beak dust...
I also know of a few people who have posted here who have had their birds die directly after a beak-trim with a Dremel or other rotary power-tool; one that stands-out to me was an Eclectus who was young, I believe only a year or two old, and completely healthy and happy. His dad took him to his Avian Vet to get his toenails clipped and his beak trimmed, which he had done before a couple of times with the same vet, I guess he just had it done on a regular basis, like every 6 months or so...Anyway, the last time he took his happy, healthy, gorgeous male Eclectus to his Avian Vet, they did his toenails and then used the Dremel on the beak. His dad said that he never went into the room with him when they did the "grooming", but he had always been fine. This time when they brought his bird back out to him, he said he didn't look good, he could tell something was wrong, they said he was fine and was just a little stressed, take him straight home and let him rest a bit, he'll be fine. So he got in his car with his Eclectus, who sat on his shoulder in the car, and on the 10 minute drive home he could hear his breathing getting more and more labored and louder and louder, and then the bird vomited a ton all over the front of his car. He had just pulled into his driveway, and he didn't even turn off his car, he called the Avian-Vet's office and told them that his bird's breathing was getting very labored and loud on the way home, and that he finally vomited all over the car...they told him that the bird was probably "car sick", but he told them that his breathing was getting worse. They then said that probably had aspirated some vomit from the car-sickness into his lungs, but he told them that the labored, heavy, loud breathing had started as soon as they had gotten in the car and long before he had ever vomited. The Vet's office was more concerned with passing-off responsibility than saving the bird...He just hung-up on them, turned around, and flew like a bat out of hell back to the Avian Vet's office 10 minutes away...He ended up having to do CPR in the parking lot of the Vet's office, but his bird had died a few minutes prior to him reaching the Vet's office...He got an independent necropsy done as well, with a new CAV who he had never met before so that it would be unbiased and truthful, and once again, the bird's lungs, air sacs, and crop were full of "beak dust"...
I know you didn't start this thread for a lecture about beak-trimming, but I feel it necessary to give people the information and let them make their own, informed-decisions about whether or not to have their bird's beaks trimmed using a Dremel or other rotary power-tool. In my experience most birds don't need their beaks trimmed if they eat a low-fat, healthy diet, and they have plenty of hard wood toys, cement perches, and a big Mineral Block to chew on/rub their beaks on. If you have a bird that is simply prone to an over-grown beak, it's fine to have a CAV or Avian Specialist trim it, but with a manual, hand-tool file and not any type of rotary power-tool, such as a Dremel. Most Avian Vets will use a hand-file to do your bird's beak if you request this instead of a rotary power-tool, and if they aren't willing to do this, then you need a new Avian Vet, or at least a new Avian Vet to do your bird's grooming...I have actually used a hand-file to "round-off" the tip of my Green Cheek Conure's beak a few times, his beak isn't at all over-grown, but for whatever reason it gets a point on the end of it that is basically like a needle. I am also a musician who repairs and restores guitars and all other musical instruments, and as such I own many different types of hand-file sets, which work great and quickly to file a bird's beak. You can buy a set of small/mini size hand-files at any Lowes or Home Depot; actually Walmart sells a set of I believe 8 small sized hand-files for around $5. That's the one I bought for only doing my bird's beaks/toenails, as well as my Bearded Dragon's toenails. That way I'm not ruining my good files that I use on guitar repairs/restorations. Works great, and is totally safe. In my own personal opinion, it's just not worth having a beak trim done with a Dremel, by a CAV or anyone else. But again, I personally know two people who have had their birds die as a direct result of this, and then also have read several posts on here about the same happening...too much risk for me.
***Either way, if you can't find a bird/parrot "groomer" locally (which I wouldn't use anyway, not for a bird, it's not like "grooming" a dog), or maybe a parrot breeder who does bird grooming, the best thing to do is to find either a Certified Avian Vet or Avian Specialist Vet who is very experienced in doing bird grooming. This is what I would do in the first place, use a CAV, as not only are they better educated, trained, and experienced, your bird is already with a CAV and in the hospital/doctor's office with life-saving equipment/supplies if something does happen to go horribly wrong.
