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Hello
Our four year old boy had some dental work undertaken lunch time on Monday this week. A few weeks ago he broke a front tooth and we think perhaps it altered his chewing and his teeth had started to wear unevenly. He was struggling to open his jaw wide enough to pick up food and his incisors were longer than usual and wearing at an angle. His teeth were also squeaking when he was eating.
We took him to our vets and he was booked in for a dental. During his procedure, the vet found that a spur had started to grow over his tongue which was burred away along with some rough edges along his cheeks. His incisors were trimmed level too. His tongue was mobile and no sign of ulceration.
Following the procedure he came around from the anaesthetic quickly and came home to us later in the afternoon.
The first 24 hours was a little shaky as a result of the anaesthetic but today he is much brighter and almost back to his usual demanding self which is great to see. He was prescribed two days Metacam which he finished this morning. We have felt along his jaw and there's no tenderness or swelling. His eyes are clear and bright with no discharge.
We are however a little concerned about his eating. We are currently syringe feeding with critical care and syringing water. We also started some Fibreplex this afternoon as his poo is a little sticky. Whilst he is interested in food and desperately wants to eat his greens, he just can't pick them up. He just gets frustrated and gives up. He will eat nuggets if we pop them into his mouth but he's showing no interested in greens, even if we cut them into tiny cubes and pop them towards the back of his mouth he just chews them around and around and usually spits them out with them hardly chewed. He's not interested in hay at all which is also concerning us.
He's not poorly and appears fine in himself but we feel like we need some advice/reassurance please that we're doing everything we can. He's maintaining a steady weight with the critical care and we're trying not to feed him too much so that he has an appetite. At the moment we're syringing around 30ml per day and hand feeding around 20x nuggets.
Our thinking is that he's had a really good burring and everything feels a little strange. We also think that perhaps his incisors are a little too short and need to grow before he can use them for grasping.
It's only just over 48 hours since the procedure so it's early days. Our plan is to maintain him using critical care until his teeth have settled and grown enough for him to resume eating from himself. Are we along the right lines?
Any advice much appreciated, thank you.
Our four year old boy had some dental work undertaken lunch time on Monday this week. A few weeks ago he broke a front tooth and we think perhaps it altered his chewing and his teeth had started to wear unevenly. He was struggling to open his jaw wide enough to pick up food and his incisors were longer than usual and wearing at an angle. His teeth were also squeaking when he was eating.
We took him to our vets and he was booked in for a dental. During his procedure, the vet found that a spur had started to grow over his tongue which was burred away along with some rough edges along his cheeks. His incisors were trimmed level too. His tongue was mobile and no sign of ulceration.
Following the procedure he came around from the anaesthetic quickly and came home to us later in the afternoon.
The first 24 hours was a little shaky as a result of the anaesthetic but today he is much brighter and almost back to his usual demanding self which is great to see. He was prescribed two days Metacam which he finished this morning. We have felt along his jaw and there's no tenderness or swelling. His eyes are clear and bright with no discharge.
We are however a little concerned about his eating. We are currently syringe feeding with critical care and syringing water. We also started some Fibreplex this afternoon as his poo is a little sticky. Whilst he is interested in food and desperately wants to eat his greens, he just can't pick them up. He just gets frustrated and gives up. He will eat nuggets if we pop them into his mouth but he's showing no interested in greens, even if we cut them into tiny cubes and pop them towards the back of his mouth he just chews them around and around and usually spits them out with them hardly chewed. He's not interested in hay at all which is also concerning us.
He's not poorly and appears fine in himself but we feel like we need some advice/reassurance please that we're doing everything we can. He's maintaining a steady weight with the critical care and we're trying not to feed him too much so that he has an appetite. At the moment we're syringing around 30ml per day and hand feeding around 20x nuggets.
Our thinking is that he's had a really good burring and everything feels a little strange. We also think that perhaps his incisors are a little too short and need to grow before he can use them for grasping.
It's only just over 48 hours since the procedure so it's early days. Our plan is to maintain him using critical care until his teeth have settled and grown enough for him to resume eating from himself. Are we along the right lines?
Any advice much appreciated, thank you.
