broken lower jaw? experiences??

He's had wire wrapped around the 2 teeth and has dental glue on them. Due for a checkup Friday

We decided to neuter him too at the same time

I have been thinking about him today. I really hope he makes a good recovery xx

I hope he is recovering and coping well today x

He's enjoying his mushy food as usual and hes had a few bits of herbs too

Fantastic. Thanks for updating x

Bad news yet again the glue and wire have come off so we're back to square one!

Jess2107 said:

Bad news yet again the glue and wire have come off so we're back to square one!

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On no What are the Vet's thoughts as to what to do now ?

Can you try Frances Harcourt Brown now - cant recall when she is on holiday.

parsnipbun said:

Can you try Frances Harcourt Brown now - cant recall when she is on holiday.

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Yeah, it said earlier on the thread for all of this week (though she has the first of the vet CPDs this week so I'm suspecting she's preparing for that). it might be worth asking at her surgery (Crab Lane Vets) it one of the other vets would see him - Ruth is extremely rabbit savvy having been Frances' right hand woman for about 8 years.

Oh I am gutted for you

Oh no I am so sorry!

I really hope your vet (or FHB?) can come up with a stable solution.

Sending many vibes for you and him xx

If I'm absolutely honest. When I rung crab lane vets for fhb last week I was absolutely disgusted as when I rung I had to leave my name and number as apparently fhb wasn't in until 1pm.. noone bothered to phone back so I rung back at 3pm.. I was told to hold the line and when the receptionist came back her words were 'frances says u have to go back to ur own vet' I even pleaded with them that he needed help from her but their reply was that she goes on holiday tomorrow so she can't do anything (this was the thursday) so my poor binky waited all day for nothing and I thought it was quite rude. Iv never met fhb but if that's how she is I don't think I want to meet her tbh. So a friend rung something along the lines of the royal London veterinary place and this is who recommended paul from chantry vets in Castleford.
When meeting paul he gave me the option to leave him as the break wasn't seriously bad or to Try to wire and glue,which I opted for. £360 later and it's still the same. He's got pain meds and is still eating brilliantly so I'm just leaving him how he is until Friday when he goes for his check up as putting him through the anaesthetic 3 times in less than 7 days is too risky.

Xx

Jess2107 said:

If I'm absolutely honest. When I rung crab lane vets for fhb last week I was absolutely disgusted as when I rung I had to leave my name and number as apparently fhb wasn't in until 1pm.. noone bothered to phone back so I rung back at 3pm.. I was told to hold the line and when the receptionist came back her words were 'frances says u have to go back to ur own vet' I even pleaded with them that he needed help from her but their reply was that she goes on holiday tomorrow so she can't do anything (this was the thursday) so my poor binky waited all day for nothing and I thought it was quite rude. Iv never met fhb but if that's how she is I don't think I want to meet her tbh. So a friend rung something along the lines of the royal London veterinary place and this is who recommended paul from chantry vets in Castleford.
When meeting paul he gave me the option to leave him as the break wasn't seriously bad or to Try to wire and glue, which I opted for. £360 later and it's still the same. He's got pain meds and is still eating brilliantly so I'm just leaving him how he is until Friday when he goes for his check up as putting him through the anaesthetic 3 times in less than 7 days is too risky.

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I can absolutely assure you that this is not how she is. Thinking about this more, that message should never have been taken in that form in the first place. Your case was either a referral or a second option. If it was a referral then your vet should have contacted her with all the information. If it was a second opinion then it should have been an consultation and an appointment booked. I'm guessing that she was consulting between her arrival and your call so that would be why you were on hold then the quick response. So sorry you had that experience, I totally understand why you wouldn't want to go back there.


I hope Binky continues to do well and everything is good at the check up.

My vets rung and she was told that fhb would super glue it but if that didn't work just to leave it so that's why I rung and asked for her to see binky but that was the response I got. I was in tears buy they just kept telling me to go back to my own vet.

You are having a hard time.

I agree about not having more GAs in a short time. We had a rabbit with a broken front leg that would not keep a cast on so in the end I went for amputation as he had 3 GAs in less than 2 weeks and it just wasn't working.

If he is eating and happy, I would leave it for now as well. The jaw bones are very thin but there should hopefully be some healing going on. At least you had the neuter done successfully so it wasn't a total loss.

Good luck for Fri - hopefully the jaw is aligned and there won't be any long term teeth issues - but even then, they will be manageable.

Out of interest - did the vet put notches in the teeth to keep the wire in place, or was it just wrapped round? As the teeth grow continually, there would be no permanent damage. Just curious.

He made tiny incisions into the gum line and put an extremely thin wire around in a figure of 8 then applied the dental glue (the one used for crowns) the plan was for him to keep coming back and having a small amount of glue re added and blow dried to set while he was still awake as he is a very good little bun, let's u do anything with him but that plan hasn't come together so god knows what's going to happen

Here's a photo of what his teeth look like. This was last Wednesday when he ate the glue off the first time

I am sorry you are both going through such a hard time

I hope it still heals well and I'm glad binky is continuing to eat through it all. Hopefully the worse that will happen will be misaligned incisors which will need regular burring. Which is in no way the end of the world.

Sending lots of healing thoughts your way x

I am so sorry that you are having such a difficult time.

Sending lots of vibes for Binky xx