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Poor little Rupert!

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Lind80

Mama Doe
Poor little Rupert! As some of you know from readin other posts I have put on, Rupert has been having his molars rasped and burred and it has been getting more and more frequent. This has been 2 weeks this time. He had x-rays and he has maloclussion of a few of his lower molars and a couple of upper molars. He also has some bone lysis of the bottom jaw. My surgery have said there is not much more they can do other than keep burring the teeth when they get bad. After this anaesthetic he got gut stasis, which I am glad to say he is over now. Has anyone got any ideas of anything else we could do? I am going to phone the rabbit clinic in Bristol on Monday, to see what they say. He is only 1 and a half years and is such a friendly little boy.

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OMG, what a beautiful bunny!!!! :love:

I'm sorry I have no advice to offer, I just had to say that he is one of the cutest bunnies I have seen!!!! (Although being on this site, I have seen quite a few LOL)

He is truely scrummy!!!!!

Awwww..... how cute.... *sigh* :lol: :lol:
 
I had exactly the same with Fern, and then her kidneys started to fail because of the anaesthetic. I remember Tamsin telling me about some who did dentals without anaesthetic - I'll see if I can find the thread.

Also, is it too far gone to have teeth removed? I'm suspecting it is cos of the lower jaw problems - Fern had this too, and her teeth started to fall out.

Maybe try a specialist vet - my normal vet referred Fern to a specialist who was able to help her for a little longer.
 
Thank you for your replies!

I didn't think you could remove their molars! I'm not sure that he would be able to be done without an anaesthetic as it is his very back molar, right next to the main artery in the mouth and he is a bit of a wriggle bum when he has them done.
 
awwww isn't he lovely - what a stunner bunny - hope you get some help from the Bristol Clinic - thats a good idea to contact them as you'd think they would have some good contacts for dentistry.

Sending a snuggle to the wee man :wink:
 
He looks gorgeous.

When I was researching the article I wrote about rabbit teeth the main consensus seemed to be that molar extractions were very dangerous for rabbits to undergo and if it was absolutely necessray only two or four max to be done at one time otherwise the rabbits can die.

Caz
 
I would guess aswell that if you removed a bottom molar you would have to remove the upper molar opposite it, or it would over grow!
 
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