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Lions is still having Dental issues

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I posted a few months ago about Lionhearts front teeth having problems. One of the front incisors seemed to have been damaged or just started growing oddly for some reason. And also his top ones seemed wrong, a bit pointy.
Lion lost some weight but was still happy, healthy and eating well. (Lion is roughly 5 years old)
The vet put him on antibiotics and metacam and to monitor to see if they grew back correct. After a few weeks he had a follow up appointment where we felt things were improving slightly. And still no issues with his back molars.

But then the tooth started growing sharp towards his top gum, and a hole appeared in the tooth. so I took him back to the vet and he had to tooth trimmed down to the correct level. Lion was much happier being able to take food normally in his mouth again, rather than having to eat sideways. He was put on septrin also.
2 days later the tooth broke to where the weakness of the hole was, and since then I’ve been keeping an eye on it until his next appointment which was in 4 weeks time. A few days ago I noticed it was growing sharp again so luckily his appointment is tomorrow.

I just wondered if anyone had any similar issues with front incisors? Will it just be a case of having to have regular trims?
 
Dear Lion I don’t have any experience of this Hannah but I hope someone will be along soon who has.
Wishing lovely Lion healing vibes to get his teeth better ❤️
 
I think it will be just a case of having regular trims as and when Hannah. My Bill had awful incisors originally caused by a broken tooth. His molars were absolutely perfect confirmed by Simon Maddock of the C&R fame. He never had any problems eating with regular tidy ups and I suspect with Lion at some time an infection has gone in one of them (from a break/hairline crack) as you can see he has a “fat tooth” Bill had one too. “Fat tooth” is grown to compensate a broken or an infected tooth. Once one of the tooth breaks then it tends to upset the balance of all four front teeth and there is very little you can do to correct it once it’s happened but regular trims
Before and after photos of Bill’s regular dentals

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Poor Lion!
I hope it will just be a case of regular trims.
Odi is in the same position but unfortunately his teeth took a turn for the worse after a few months of regular trims. Now his molars are effected as well.
I have had quite a few piggies with teeth issues in the course of the years and not two cases were entirely the same.
All fingers and paws crossed for Lion!
 
Aw poor Lion. My Edward broke an incisor and grew a fat tooth next to it. It did cause him pain as the pressure of it rubbed against the opposite tooth and he had a couple of conscious dentals at the Cat and Rabbit care clinic to file it down. He was staying with Wiebke at the time so he could have conscious dentals from Simon and Kim Maddock. Sadly he died from unrelated old age illnesses before he came home to me

I hope it will just be a case of Lion having regular dentals to tidy up his incisors and that his molars won’t be effected x
 
Bill & Ted said:
I think it will be just a case of having regular trims as and when Hannah. My Bill had awful incisors originally caused by a broken tooth. His molars were absolutely perfect confirmed by Simon Maddock of the C&R fame. He never had any problems eating with regular tidy ups and I suspect with Lion at some time an infection has gone in one of them (from a break/hairline crack) as you can see he has a “fat tooth” Bill had one too. “Fat tooth” is grown to compensate a broken or an infected tooth. Once one of the tooth breaks then it tends to upset the balance of all four front teeth and there is very little you can do to correct it once it’s happened but regular trims
Before and after photos of Bill’s regular dentals

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Thank you for sharing your experience with similar issues that you had with Bill. I feel that’s what probably happened with Lion, he somehow must have broken/damaged a tooth.
Fingers crossed it will just be a case of regular trims and nothing more!
 
Viennese Furbabies said:
Poor Lion!
I hope it will just be a case of regular trims.
Odi is in the same position but unfortunately his teeth took a turn for the worse after a few months of regular trims. Now his molars are effected as well.
I have had quite a few piggies with teeth issues in the course of the years and not two cases were entirely the same.
All fingers and paws crossed for Lion!
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That’s a shame Odi teeth started to get worse with the molars becoming effected too!
Definitely something me and the vet will keep and eye on, thank you!
 
Claire W said:
Aw poor Lion. My Edward broke an incisor and grew a fat tooth next to it. It did cause him pain as the pressure of it rubbed against the opposite tooth and he had a couple of conscious dentals at the Cat and Rabbit care clinic to file it down. He was staying with Wiebke at the time so he could have conscious dentals from Simon and Kim Maddock. Sadly he died from unrelated old age illnesses before he came home to me

I hope it will just be a case of Lion having regular dentals to tidy up his incisors and that his molars won’t be effected x
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That must be what lion done as well then, as his incisor grew fat and strange what seemed all of a sudden, What do these pigs get up too when we aren’t watching!
Thank you Claire x
 
We’ve just got back from the vet, all went well. Aaron was happy with Lion, he’s put on 60g since his last visit which is great. He trimmed his sharp point down and we will go back in 4 weeks for another trim. Looks like a case of regular trims. Hopefully after this next one we can make them 6 weekly trims depending on how he goes.
He’s happily just eaten some grass and now having a well earned nap!
 
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