Dental Wobbly incisors and misalignment

[Emma Y]

Hi, I am new to this forum so have been flicking through some of the threads. There is so much useful information on here, thank you! I have a big dental problem with my 16 mth old Lily. She lost weight dramatically and after syringe feeding over the bank holiday I finally managed to find a vet who was happy to look at teeth. She had an anaesthetic and filing of her molars which had almost formed a bridge and trapped her tongue. He also x-rayed her as her incisors were loose. It confirmed elongated roots (I think) and I suspect she has malalignment. As far as I know he has only treated the molars to free her tongue at this point, but we are now day 2 and she is behaving just the same as before- desperate to eat and trying, but can’t seem to pick anything up or hold in her mouth. She is on metacam and syringe feeds which she hates and are so traumatic for us both. I am going to take her back in on Saturday but wondered what my options are. Remove the teeth? Then what- how long for syringe feeding- my husband and I are both out of the house working long days so that doesn’t work well. If wobbly I assume you have to do more than file them down? It is so hard watching her suffer, and she hates syringe feeding so all pretty miserable.

 

[Bradshaw Piggies]

Hello and welcome!


I'm so very sorry to hear that your girl is having issues. The inability to pick up food is something I saw with my dental pig when he was at his worst. I had many a vet treat him with no luck, until I found the Cat and Rabbit Clinic in Northampton. It meant me driving him on a 400 mile round trip once per week at the time, but was worth it as with their outstanding expertise they corrected his issues using conscious dentals (he had previously had several dentals under GA - very detrimental to him and the issues were not corrected at all). I cannot recommend these vets enough for anything dental and I'm sure other members on here will agree (as many of them also travel to see these vets for piggy dental work).

Some piggies do require ongoing dental treatment for life. But some do improve over time and the time between dentals increases (my boy went from weekly to once monthly dentals).

I'm sure our more experienced members will be along to help and advise you soon. We are sending lots of love for your little one and hope she improves soon

 

[Bill & Ted]

I have had two dental piggies, one with dental spurs growing into the cheek (the opposite way to your piggie) I use to take Ted to the Cat and Rabbit Clinic in Northampton like many others on this forum. SImon and a Kim Maddock are the best and most experienced piggie dental vets in the Country and people travel from all over, me from Cornwall 300 miles to get there, 600 mile round trip, worth every mile. They will look in her mouth and will do any work needed, this includes conscious dentals which take about 10 minutes and the pighie is eating sometimes on the way out of the vets (My Ted did on his first trip) after 6 weeks of syringe feeding from a bad GA dental with my local vets.
The cost is very reasonable too as no aesthetics are needed so no after effects for the piggie. No referrals are needed just give them a call, appts go very quickly as they are so popular with guinea pig owners.
Keep up with the syringe feeding, you are keeping her alive. It sounds like the teeth have not been filed even if she cannot hold the food in her mouth. They are suppose to rub backward and forward and side to side. If she has wobbly incisors she may have a break below the gum line. Were the incisors wobbly before she went for surgery?
If you can get an appointment with Simon or Kim, they would be your best bet, they will look into her mouth and will tell you whats going on and should be able to file any rough spikes off the surface of her wearing teeth (molars) and check the bridging over the tongue has been dealt with properly and sort if not. They will check these wobbly incisors too