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Originally Posted by Lovetodream88  Dentals are very normal thing in a dogs life and very important. My almost 11 year old has had 4 or 5. |
Years back I had a Yorkie's tooth abscess through the face and bleed! Bad gums. Dental cleaning/tooth extraction and 6 weeks later I became a dedicated tooth brusher.
The thing is, even with regular, yearly dentals - like Tibbe has all his life - they can still get an abscess of the nerve while teeth and gums are fine. I found a scab on Tibbe face 1 1/2 inches under his eye at 6:30 pm Saturday in late August and rushed him to the ER vet. She said he had an abscessed tooth! Told her he gets regular dentals and tooth brushings but she said extraction is only treatment. She started him on antibiotics and that Monday I was at my vet's, who had a fill-in lady vet who did the emergency dental. She called to say the tooth and gums are fine, thinks it was a foreign body so gives him big antibiotic shot and he comes home. The scab stayed, his eye above that tooth kept draining and I cleaned his face, eyes twice or more a day and kept close watch for pus or reddened eyes or bad smell. Followed up with the vet who said x-ray showed no FB and gums, tooth were fine! Left there with pain medicine and more antibiotics. Took him to another vet who said gums, tooth were fine but x-ray showed the nerve root was infected, not uncommon in Yorkies she said, and as rounds of antibiotics hadn't cleared it up, the tooth and its infected nerve root would have to go. Said she doubted there ever was an FB! He had the dental extraction and the scab, infection and draining eye cleared right up! Careful, gentle daily brushings avoiding the surgery wound returned at about 5 weeks post-op and at 8 weeks returned to normal brushings.
Poor dentition in Yorkies is a well-known problem so have the dental, any extraction of decayed or infected teeth and begin a regular brushing program. IDK but possibly the eye squinting could possibly be from infection deep within the jaw at the nerve root of one of his teeth and pain. I'd get him to a vet you trust and get his dental situation x-rayed and checked out, treated. That is not a bad price and be sure to have pre-op blood work done. Best wishes to you and that sweet baby.