Conference misery::feline_v1

    Ha ha...the famous loose a tooth story.  This is normal for kittens
    between ages 5-7 months.   I'm laughing because the first time I
    saw this...panic set in...I was a total basket case.  Why is my
    cat loosing his teeth...is he sick?   Well I called my vet and
    again....he laughed and told me it was normal and that he has never
    seen such a worry wart of a Mom!!!!  They are considered baby teeth!
    
    Don't worry...Sandy

    The first time I freaked out as well.  Then when I checked out his
    mouth I noticed double teeth - one in front of the other.  I was lucky
    enough to find one tooth from each of my cats so I put them in the photo
    album with the kitten pictures.  My Siamese, Gino, cut his baby teeth
    on a roll of paper towels.  I came home to find the paper towels torn
    to shreads on the kitchen floor with blood on them and sure enough
    under the pile of paper I found THE TOOTH - he did the same thing with
    the second one!
    
    Giudi +3

    Yes, I spent plenty of time picking up kitten teeth, puppy
    teeth, and even horse teeth.  I still have a horse tooth :-)
    
    Lynne

      Oh, yes...with a litter it's even more fun...you find 'em all over
    the house...sometimes when you sit on the sofa you find them...OUCH!!
    
      It's a panic when one sticks--and it points out at a right angle for
    a half day or so...
    
    
       Actually, I have had the bad experience with my little "Cookie"
    where she lost one of her ADULT CANINE teeth!! What she did I'llnever
    know, but the Vet says he thinks she either fell or something fell on
    her...(She has been seen on occasion on TOP of the refrigerator...and
    their isn't anything REAL close to it...so I think she was trying to
    imitate "The Flying Wallenda's" some day and missed... What she did was
    break the tooth off...and the problem then was that the half-tooth had
    an exposed nerve. Another problem with this is her size. If this was a
    German Shepherd, you simply have the tooth pulled...but with a kitty
    jaw, there is the distinct danger that the jaw could be inadvertantly
    broken if too much pressure were applied. So Cookie had to live with
    the half-tooth for about a month, until it naturally loosened and the
    vet was then able to extract the stump with no problem...
      But there still is a minor problem...with the canine tooth missing,
    she sometimes catches her lip on the LOWER large tooth!(Stomach tooth
    I think it's called..Gee..I just looked it up in the dictionary and I
    was right..)  When she does this, she looks sillier than the dickens
    with her lip wrinkled into her mouth.. The danger here is that she
    COULD create a sore fromthe tooth, but so far she's been O.K....
    
      No problem with those baby teeth though... In fact, I LOVE to look at
    the front teeth of cats--especially kittens....they are so teeny-tiny
    and look so cute...almost not real..
    
      John Mc
     

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    If Cookie's tooth stump had been healthy enough to be saved, she could
    have had a root canal to avoid getting the subsequent sore on her
    lower lip from the absence of the tooth.  This is something that
    vets have evidentally figured out fairly recently -- and why Sweetie
    had a root canal....
    

       I think my vet did consider this, but the tooth was broken almost at
    the base, so he elected to go this way since the potential of the sore
    would have been there anyway. She has shown no difficulty with it so
    far...like last night...she was sitting in front of "HER" dog, Teddy,
    washing his face very thoroughly while he was lieing there eating it
    up... She just looks sort of "off-kilter" when the lower tooth catches
    her upper lip.
    
    JM