Februari 10, 2017
i'm dr. clayton greenway with healthcareforpets.com and we're answering questions that came into the website. this one comes from sandy and it's a good one, it says, "my vet wants to pull out any baby teeth if they don't fall out by six months, never heard of this sounds like a cash grab, is this now protocol for puppies?" i love
this question. i love the fact that sandy is actually saying sounds like a cash grab. i love hearing the honesty from people in their questions like that and i like addressing this stuff because let's face it, veterinary medicine is expensive and we really want to make sure we trust our
veterinarian and i think you can get a good sense of that even with any professional that we go to in our lives. now let's just address this problem so dogs and cats are born with what are called deciduous teeth or baby teeth and they're supposed to fall out by six months but there's a lot of breeds that really retain those teeth. in fact a lot
of the brachycephalic breads, the flat nose breeds, the small breed dogs, they will actually have their teeth very often retained and what will happen is it, it's particularly that this, the kid, what are called the canine teeth or fang teeth and what will happen is the adult teeth will start to come in and if the baby teeth are deciduous teeth are
retained, then you'll have kind of a double tooth there and it will distract or put pressure on the adult tooth coming in and it will cause it to place improperly and now the mouth won't close and the teeth won't intertwine or interact as well. along with that, you'll have these two teeth very close together, so stuff gets trapped in it,
significantly more often and it will really cause a big problem. the deciduous teeth if they don't fall out by six months, it's pretty uncommon that they'll fall out from that so i see lots of dogs at age 3, 4, 5, 6 that still have their baby teeth and they've got lots of reaction around that area because so much stuff is getting trapped
there and if you actually address this problem later it's so much more expensive because you're doing a full anesthetic just to remove those teeth. what we do at six months which is usually a time when we neuter or spay and there's always a discussion to have as to what time is right for you for
that but that's a different story but the thing is, is that six months you're already doing that neuter or spayed procedure and those procedures are usually pretty cheap compared to regular surgery. so when you add on taking out the baby teeth at that time it's a lot less expensive than if you later have to do a full surgery purely for that
purpose. so this aspect of a cash grab i totally understand it, i understand why sandy would think that way, but in fact by addressing it during the spay or the neuter it will be a lot cheaper than going forward and ending up having problems with those permanent teeth that come in, those adult teeth being malposition and more reaction of the gum
because the debris that gets caught between them. so that's the best time to do it, this is really good advice that you are getting, you are going to a veterinarian who you can trust. ok i really appreciate that question sandy and good luck with that and keep those questions coming here to healthcareforpets.com.
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