Double row of teeth during the period of tooth replacement
Dogs have six incisors, two canines, eight premolars and four molars on the upper jaw, making a total of 20. By the time the grizzly bear is three months old, her baby teeth are all in. By the time she is four months old, she is gradually replacing her front teeth. By this time, the permanent teeth are already in before the baby teeth have fallen out. The baby teeth are more difficult to fall out because the space in the grizzly bear's mouth is too small, and the baby teeth and permanent teeth are crowded together. Double teeth are far more common in small dogs than in large dogs, because small dogs have less oral space than large dogs.
The need to assist with tooth replacement
Some shoveling officials will think that it is good to let nature take its course in changing teeth, and if they really keep their deciduous teeth all the time, it will have no effect, but this view is extremely wrong. The reasons are as follows:
Permanent tooth deformity
Breast pressure that does not fall off normally can affect the normal development of permanent teeth and cause serious deformities of permanent teeth. It is not uncommon for permanent teeth to grow forward, which can cause malocclusion of dogs, affect their daily diet, and even make them unable to eat.
Infected with oral disease
The coexistence of deciduous teeth and permanent teeth makes it easy to leave food residues and more difficult to clean, which greatly increases the risk of bad breath and oral diseases in dogs.
Reduce the number of dogs
Oral bacteria are easy to breed, which can lead to gastrointestinal discomfort in dogs, and over time lead to oral diseases, resulting in difficulty in eating dogs, and ultimately affect life expectancy. Dogs with an unhealthy mouth tend to live 2-3 years less than dogs with a healthy mouth.
Injured the shoveling officer by mistake
The permanent teeth are often white and smooth, while the deciduous teeth are very sharp. If you do not assist the dog to complete the tooth replacement during the tooth replacement period, the dog is not very skilled in biting, and it is easy to scratch the shoveling officer with the deciduous teeth. Grizzly bear is like this. When playing games, she accidentally scratched me with the deciduous teeth. She really didn't mean to bite me.
Solutions
Tug of war
This kind of tug-of-war game helps the deciduous teeth to fall off. Often in the process of pulling, the front deciduous teeth will move slowly. String toys are suitable for tug-of-war (that is, the scrap rate is too high). If not, find an unused towel, let the dog bite one end and pull it back and forth. In order to prevent the grizzly bear from feeling frustrated and unwilling to play, she can pretend to fail after a stalemate and let her snatch it.
Shake your teeth
I shake all the deciduous teeth of the grizzly bear almost every day. The grizzly bear doesn't like it at first, but now he gets used to it. Shaking the teeth can help the fall and prevent the grizzly bear from swallowing by mistake.
Feeding teeth-grinding snacks
I recommend McFuddy's dog chews. The choice of chews and teething sticks must be appropriate. The grizzly bear's gums were bleeding because of the inappropriate chewing gum. The size of the dog and the age of the dog should be considered within the design range. Apart from anything else, the "small" + "puppy" range limit is very thoughtful, and the teeth grinding force is very enough; basically feed a grizzly bear every morning, let her bite, the effect is good, and the effect of fresh breath is recommended.
Increase the frequency of brushing
Coexistence of deciduous teeth and permanent teeth, loss of deciduous teeth and so on during tooth replacement may lead to the increase of oral bacteria, so the frequency of brushing teeth should be increased accordingly to prevent the growth of dental calculus and bacteria caused by food residues between double rows of teeth.
To diminish inflammation
The grizzly bear has lost three teeth so far, and every time he loses his teeth, it's bloody.
Don't brush your teeth right after you lose them. I give the grizzly some anti-inflammatory drugs, from Sonomycin for dogs to Azithromycin for children, to prevent inflammation and infection. At the same time, I give the grizzly more water.
Last option-tooth extraction
Grizzly bear is now 6 months old, her deciduous teeth are still very strong, although I have been trying to operate, also lost a few, but more because she is very smart, bite things basically do not need the front teeth, the front row of deciduous teeth did not mean to fall off, it is likely to have to be extracted. I am going to extract teeth when she is 1 year and 2 months old. If she still has residual deciduous teeth at 1 year and 2 months old, I am going to take her to extract teeth in batches (because it is easy to shake the gums before one year old). If you really want to pull a tooth, I will share it with you later.
