Abcess on lower jaw...

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lilym

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My 4 year old has an abcess between the arms on her lower jaw - she is eating well, no temp, no discharge, no smelly breath, and is well in herself, I have hot poulticed it and will be speaking to the vet tomorrow - but wondered if anyone else had had to deal with anything similar??
 
How do you know its an abscess and not something causing a penetration injury? With infections in the nose, sinuses or mouth, there is a terrible smell and a discharge. It could be a localised abscess, but would get the vet out to be on the safe side.

There is also a condition where horses have teeth forming elsewhere in their skulls. Cant remember the name, but my friends clydesdale had 3 of these teeth removed from between his ears and eyes!
 
It has a head on it - kinda like a boil and has "popped" and formed a scab, it isn't on the bony structure of the jaw it's self, but on the soft fleshy bit between the bones...
 
I had a four year old with one in exactly the same place and it never went for the year that I had him. It caused no trouble whatsoever as long as I kept the scab picked off and let it drain. He had some strong antibiotics for a cut on his knee that was healed when I got him but burst open six weeks later
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and even they didn't stop the jaw abscess. I saw him five years later and it was healed and he was in fine health.
 
Our lad developed a lump under his chin, in what sounds like the same place. He went away whilst we were on holiday and the yard vet there was concerned - they took a sample and sent it to the AHT for analysis, and it was sterile. It did get very 'tight' and I started to put a hot flannel on it at every opportunity - probably about 4 times a day - he was a star and let me bandage it on. It did pop after about a week of flannelling, and I continued to bandage it to draw the fluid out. Within a couple of weeks it had healed over and in time totally disappeared! Good luck - ours was just a case of time!
 
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