Puppy has a wonky canine....

[Custard Cream]

We collected our lovely puppy last Saturday and today she went for her first injection. All is ok apart from the vet noticed (and I'm mad at myself for not noticing) that her lower left canine is growing inwards instead of outwards.

It's made a small mark on her upper palate, she's not sore, it's not drawn blood and it doesn't affect her eating.

Vet said it could just be a wonky puppy tooth and to see what her adult tooth looks like at 6 months and go from there. If it is wonky she said they'd have to do a root canal and crown it!

Anyone any experience of this?

 

[s4sugar]

If the adult tooth is wonky they would also have options of braces or extraction - but they wouldn't make as much money that way.
Have you been shown how to ease a baby tooth into line? Ask her breeder or a terrierman.

 

[Custard Cream]

No, but breeder says one other in the litter has the same and one did last litter too and that grew a normal canine....

 

[willhegofirst]

We need pictures of this lovely pup!! Both my Spins have uneven lower front teeth.

 

[Custard Cream]

Hi willhe - just seen there was another response, sorry for the slow reply!

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The vet suggested that if the adult tooth grew through wonky and poking the top of her mouth we'd have to crown it and do a root canal.....this worries me....

 

[EAST KENT]

Oh FFS! Ignore the silly vet!The tooth,even if it stays misaligned ,will only press an accomadating hole in the upper(?) palate GUM.Now harm done,leave it alone,the vet has the Ca ching going ping in it`s head.Lots of bull terriers have this mouth fault and no one has suffered any ill effects whatsoever.IGNORE!