Kitten lost tooth

scotish fold · Dec 9, 2015

HELP
Today i was playing with my 4 month old scotish fold and he started bitting me
A minute later i saw some blood on my shirt and then i saw my kittens BACK tooth

WHAT SHOULD I DO?!?!

IS IT NORMAL!!?!

Sarthur2 · Dec 9, 2015

Kittens lose their baby teeth, which are replaced by adult teeth. It's normal.

poeticfelony · Dec 9, 2015

I knew kittens and puppies lose their baby teeth like us hoomins but my vet informed me that kittens lose 2 sets of teeth at different ages. First set at 4-6 months and second set at 6-8 months. That's how we were able to determine the approximate age of our kitten Tonks.

jennyr · Dec 9, 2015

Totally normal! We don't often see the teeth, though - I think they swallow them, so no tooth fairy for kittens. They start to lose them around 4 1/2 months, and they should have to full adult set around 7 or 8 months. But all kittens vary a little.

PushPurrCatPaws · Dec 10, 2015

Scotish Fold said:
HELP
Today i was playing with my 4 month old scotish fold and he started bitting me
A minute later i saw some blood on my shirt and then i saw my kittens BACK tooth

WHAT SHOULD I DO?!?!

IS IT NORMAL!!?!

JennyR said:
Totally normal! We don't often see the teeth, though - I think they swallow them, so no tooth fairy for kittens. They start to lose them around 4 1/2 months, and they should have to full adult set around 7 or 8 months. But all kittens vary a little.

Yes, very normal!
But sometimes the tooth fairy can owe the kitten some catnip toys under their pillow, in exchange for found teeth! I managed to find two canines and a little row of back teeth when my kitten was teething.

I have a few cropped photos of Milly yawning to show you more of what goes on... the first is at age about 4- 1/2 months, before she really began losing teeth (as JennyR mentions in her post). What your kitten lost was probably part or all of that little back row of teeth. The 2nd cropped photo of Milly's yawn about 8 weeks later, when she is getting in more of her adult teeth. You can see the slight redness in her gums, the soreness that can come with the teething process. Although the perspectives in the photos aren't quite the same, you can also see how the head & mouth shapes elongate as a kitten gets older.

Milly is now past the teething stage (she's over 8 mos old now).