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tooty pegs and resorption

winnies angel

Mama Doe
Angel as you know has very bad mouth disease to point we didn't think she had long left the other month but since then she has showed no signs of hurting and she had lost her front teeth few years ago but recently she has grown one (ah bless although it does look like a tooth pick) she pee'd on floor yesterday her sign that she needs the vet and its 3 month today that shes had dental (she goes evry 3 months for dentals) vet has said her teeth are now getting difficult to burr down as they are being reabsorbed into the gums.
I take this as a bad sign but when I have looked up this in humans its kinda ok the body just disposes of the teeth and you would need false ones.
Is this good or bad for angel?
 
Is Angel an elderly bunny? I'm no expert on this at all but it sounds a bit like her crumbling teeth etc could be due to her long term history of dental disease and that this is the end-stage of that disease? or nutritional deficiency - calcium and vit D?/or poor bone/tooth formation? Is she a rescue bun?

I'm not really familiar with dental reabsorption in humans either? Although bone reasorbption is part of a normal metabolic process - there is normally complimentary bone formation to take it's place.
I hope your vet can give you some more answers. x
 
angels about 4.1/2 years old, she was rescued and we got her at about 1 1/2 years.
To begin with she had dental for the year then every 6 months now its every 3 months has been for over good year. It was her eye that kept causing problems guking all the time then her front teeth dissappeared and then we found our original vet (when we first got winnie) who x-rayed her etc and found she has mouth disease and had none of the other vets not said how bad her mouth was. Noone had ever mentioned it to us.poor girl shes so hoppy in herself though.
 
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