When to pull baby teeth if necessary?

[Nancy1999]

Originally Posted by my4pups

i have 4 yorkies and our one male we waited over a yr old and no problems they put him under and pulled them. now our other male is a different story, we waited till he was over a yr old and for him this was to long to wait, we are faceing a pretty serious dental surgey with him. they are even anticapating having to pull a couple adult teeth. so i say the sooner the better. i've learned my lesson about waiting to long.

I thought that waiting a year was safe, I wonder how long is best?

[veggienut]

My Yorkie just had his baby teeth removed this past week. I really wasn't going to do it, but I found a baby tooth really loose and went to the Vet. They told me that the front top teeth, there are only suppose to be 5, and he had 6 (that was the loose one). I always tried to watch and see if he had issues with those adult teeth coming in on top of his baby teeth, but I really couldn't tell. Since she told me the situation, I saw afterwards that he eats only one side and hold a ball on that other side too. Apparently, he did have issues and couldn't tell me, of course. He's so much better now and is back to his old self.

[my4pups]

i think in our situation a yaer was to long but i think his is extreme. I should have taken him in sooner, we always had trouble brushing his teeth. It was our fault for not realizing his were so bad.

[veggienut]

Originally Posted by my4pups

i have 4 yorkies and our one male we waited over a yr old and no problems they put him under and pulled them. now our other male is a different story, we waited till he was over a yr old and for him this was to long to wait, we are faceing a pretty serious dental surgey with him. they are even anticapating having to pull a couple adult teeth. so i say the sooner the better. i've learned my lesson about waiting to long.

No you didn't wait too long, mine is almost 2.5 years.

[katy-yorkie]

Buster is two years old and on the 18th will have some baby teeth when he has his teeth cleaned. Not sure why the vet did not take them when he was neutered. He was neutered when he was about 6 months old. When the same vet spayed Maggie, he removed four of her baby teeth. I don't think Buster is going to be very happy on the 18th.