Parrot Mouth!

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So I went a brought a horse, finally!! She was exactly what I am looking for except she has an overbite or parrot mouth.

When she's relaxed the bottom and top teeth touch together but when she gets stressed, they don't. She doesn't seem to have a problem eating as will happily clean her feed bowl out in the mornings and seems to have no problems grazing, but then again she is in a paddock with a lot of grass. She isn't underweight but lacks topline, however she is a 4 year old TB who was broken at the beginning of the year and then turned away for the last few months.

I'm having an EDT over to see her on Thursday, but does anyone have any experiences? Can it be solved or helped? Any advice?

For some reason I'm nervous of what the dentist is going to say, almost as bad as when I go to the dentist!!
 
Ours has a slight parrot mouth. It doesn't affect his eating or performance in any way , but I do get his teeth checked every 6 months without fail xx
 
My horse is slightly over shot. I just have to be really religious about getting his teeth done every 6 months, otherwise they don't wear evenly at the back and he ends up with hooks & ramps, which then will cause an issue with relaxing the jaw etc. So just keep the teeth looked after properly and you should be fine.
 
Ha! My pony had a parrot mouth and it used to get worse the crosser he got :o and he was often very cross :) He lived to nearly 37 and had no trouble eating until later life when his teeth fell out anyway due to old age. He had a wave mouth too (often goes with parrot mouth) so had twice yearly dental check ups.
 
My tb is slightly parrot mouthed from windsucking but so am I lol. I just try to dissuade him from sucking without stressing him about it.
 
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