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Harvey's last baby canine!

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I know it's been brought up a lot lately, so I thought I'd share my newest baby book addition. bigwink.gif

 

Harvey has experienced doublefang syndrome, as I like to call it, while growing both his lower and upper canines. The lower ones fell out a couple of weeks ago, at about 5.5 months, and we've been watching the top closely. I knew they were getting loose, and sometime between last night and this morning, his left baby canine fell out. We're visiting my parents for the holidays currently, so who knows where it could be -- although I found a white towel in the floor with hundreds of lightly bloody bitemarks on it this afternoon. No tooth. So tonight, while sitting up FAR too late, I finally got him to sit still long enough for me to look closely at the remaining tooth. It was lightly bleeding, and VERY loose to the touch. He was very protective of it, and didn't want me messing around! So we began to play with toys, thinking I could help him dislodge it, but he refused to bite anything. Finally, my DB made the offer to do the deed. I gently snuggled him up and closed my eyes while he got a good grip... and barely a gentle tug later, it was out! It must've been so uncomfortable to have something that loose still stuck in your mouth! We filled his water dish with ice and water, and not more than 20 minutes later, his gums are immediately less inflamed. caticon.gif Admittedly, he's a little jumpy, though... but he'll forgive us. 

 

We kept the tooth for posterity... I was surprised at how little root there is to it. I hear others talking, but I never had a reference of what to look out for. It's almost like a toenail.

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After all that excitement, the lasercats rest.

 

 

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post #2 of 4

Oh you lucky thing!!. The times l spent on my hands and knees looking for my kids toothy pegs and found nothing.

 

I would still keep an eye on his gum for a day or so?

post #3 of 4
HOW BRAVE! laughing02.gif And yes, how lucky! We never found a single baby tooth from ANY of the babies!!!!!

There's so little root because part of the process of losing the milk teeth is that the roots get resorbed when the adult teeth are ready to come in. It's why they fall out so easily!
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OH bluelaugh.gif I remember those days - just last year. I would find baby teeth here and there. With three kittens, I didn't know who tooth was whose. I even think sometimes they eat their teeth eek.gif I saw Presley crunching on one of his last year and by the time I got there it was gone laughing02.gif

I love seeing picture of your boys biggrin.gif - just so darn cute deg.gif I am sure Harvey feels much better now that the tooth is out agree.gif!! deg.gif
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