Teresa1996
Member
Hi all, first a bit of backstory:
I have a 6 years old boy, who got diagnosed with a bone eating infection in his lower jaw. Since then we have had multiple vet visits and procedures, which resulted in my bun having parts of his lower jawbone removed, as well as all of his lower molars and one of his bottom incisor on his left side.
We didn't have any teeth related issues for a while but recently, probably due to the changes in his lower jawbone, his lone bottom incisor became growing crooked to one side and is no longer touching his upper incisors.
He's still very active and very interested in food, but due to his "cutting" teeth no longer touching, he's not really able to munch on his favourite greens (or hay). He just kinda nibbles on it and then spits it out.
I've been trying to help by cutting his greens into small pieces so that he doesn't need to use his front teeth but he's not really interested in that. He'd rather keep trying to eat like a big boy.
My vet told me that there's not much he can do except for grinding those teeth when they get too long and that my bun has to find his own new "technique".
Has anyone ever had a bun with a similar problem? Do you have any tips how to help him figure out how to eat now?
Thank you.
(adding a pic of his toofs, please pay no mind to the mess under his jaw, he's had a procedure done recently to make a hole so that pus can be cleaned and it's leaking a bit)
I have a 6 years old boy, who got diagnosed with a bone eating infection in his lower jaw. Since then we have had multiple vet visits and procedures, which resulted in my bun having parts of his lower jawbone removed, as well as all of his lower molars and one of his bottom incisor on his left side.
We didn't have any teeth related issues for a while but recently, probably due to the changes in his lower jawbone, his lone bottom incisor became growing crooked to one side and is no longer touching his upper incisors.
He's still very active and very interested in food, but due to his "cutting" teeth no longer touching, he's not really able to munch on his favourite greens (or hay). He just kinda nibbles on it and then spits it out.
I've been trying to help by cutting his greens into small pieces so that he doesn't need to use his front teeth but he's not really interested in that. He'd rather keep trying to eat like a big boy.
My vet told me that there's not much he can do except for grinding those teeth when they get too long and that my bun has to find his own new "technique".
Has anyone ever had a bun with a similar problem? Do you have any tips how to help him figure out how to eat now?
Thank you.
(adding a pic of his toofs, please pay no mind to the mess under his jaw, he's had a procedure done recently to make a hole so that pus can be cleaned and it's leaking a bit)
