Teeth extraction?! Advice please!

Firsty; Hello I'm new to the forums and I've had a good old lurk. You seem like a helpful bunch, so I wondered if I could come here and ask for some advice.

A year ago, I adopted a dwarf lop. She's so sweet. She was named Brown Bear because her mother chewed her ears as a baby, resulting in one of them being rounded like a teddy's. Unfortunately, she's a poorly little thing. (I say little but she's approximately 5-6 years old now.)

A few months ago she stopped eating and drinking. All four incisors were over-grown so she went to the vet to have them sorted under general. The vet also found that she had this problem with a molar and had developed a callus in the back of her mouth which was now harmless. The vet also pointed out that her jaw was very out of line and her teeth grow in funny/different directions too. They're very gappy. The teeth very quickly create the same problem and she's having monthly general anaesthetics to fix them. It's doing my purse no favours, the operations are costing around £100 a time which I'm struggling to afford because I'm a skint student, and I also don't like having to put her through it so often.

In comparison, my buck who I've had for 3 years now is as healthy as they come. He has beautiful teeth. They share a hutch and are lovely together. They eat the same dry pellets although he is a much bigger fan of eating hay and greens than she is.

Her last operation was 4 weeks ago today and she needs to go to the vet this evening/tomorrow morning to go through it again. This time though, one of the lower teeth is completely loose which has me worried. Could this be a further/more comlex problem if her tooth is so wobbly?

I really, really could do with some advice. My vet hasn't mentioned extraction at all and every book I look in says something different. Does anyone have any experience with poor teeth? Should I be talking to the vet about extraction? Obviously she comes first, but I'm struggling so badly with the bills.

Hi something like this might be happening to me soon my bun has to go and have a head xray tomorrow to see if its her teeth causing her eye problem I am very worried about her, I can't really give you any advice about the teeth but as for paying the vet bills if you are a student you might be able to take her to the PDSA where you just leave a donation for her treatmeant I'd give your local one a call and see what they say?

Thanks I never thought a thing about it but I'm about to get to googling PDSA.

My bun also has/had eye problems. She had two operations on her eyes before I got her but they're now fine. Very rarely do they weep, but as soon as I bathe them they clear up perfectly. Hope all goes well with your bun tomorrow.

Thank you, hope all goes well for you and welcome to the forum.

One of my rabbits has a jaw abscess. At his last dental for molar spurs, 5 molars on one side of his lower jaw just fell out. He also has slanting wear on his incisors which were clipped separately a few weeks ago as he isn't quite in need of another GA yet. He is weighed, examined and injected with depocilin weekly.

There do not seem to be any particular problems with the missing molars yet (2 or 3 months). I was expecting either regrowth of those teeth or a need for the top ones to be burred down as they have nothing to wear down on.

There are obviously going to be some problems in the near future. The abscess is still there after many months of treatment. His incisors are not as robust as they should be. He still gets molar spurs.

On the plus side, he is well in himself, very lively and maintaining his weight with no special diet. We are carefully monitoring and will do more dental work as required, or PTS if something major happens.

Overall, I would not be too worried - if a tooth is that loose it is probably better out from my limited experience, and I would deal with the rest as soon as anything needed doing.

More hay / grass will increase the tooth wear and reduce the need for dentals. Some vets may be able to burr the teeth down further to the gum line so there is a longer gap between GAs - this may need a referral to a specialist.