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05-30-2006, 05:37 PM | #1 |
YT 1000 Club Member Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: TX
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| baby teeth forming caps??? I had another dog in at the vet today, and while I was there the vet took a quick look at my little adopted yorkie (nine months old). He sd. that her baby teeth were forming "caps" on her molars, and that we could take care of that while she was being spayed. We didn't have a lot of time to discuss it today, and she's going back in for a more thorough look-over in a couple of weeks, anyway. But I was wondering....is this phenomenon what everyone is referring to when they talk about having to have the baby teeth removed? I just never heard the "cap" description before.
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05-30-2006, 05:44 PM | #2 |
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| I guess your vet doesn't feel that the adult teeth will push the baby teeth out on their own? Oscar just got neutered and had 14 baby teeth pulled - some of them had roots an INCH long (HUGE for a teeny mouth, he's only 2lbs 9oz). His adult teeth were growing in around his baby teeth - he looked like a shark in the front because he actually had 2 rows of teeth (gross). I would definitely recommend having it done while she's getting spayed - saves another surgery down the road if these teeth don't end up falling out on their own, and it IS a surgery that they need to be sedated for.
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05-30-2006, 08:49 PM | #3 |
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| Well, from what I understood from his quick description, the permanent HAD pushed up under the baby teeth, but hadn't been able to push them all the way out....maybe those long roots, you're talking about. Anyway, so that instead of the "two rows of teeth" phenomenon, the baby molars were still "covering" the adult ones. I'd just never heard of that! But goodness knows I still have a lot to learn!
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05-30-2006, 08:55 PM | #4 |
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| Hum, I have never heard of that either. I guess we could learn something about these babies everyday. Good luck with getting the teeth corrected. |
05-31-2006, 09:16 AM | #5 |
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| I should add that I know this vet isn't yanking my chain about it. He's a friend of the family, and cuts me as much slack as he can financially since he knows I'm dealing with some rescue situations.
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