Annie's teeth

[Cibach]

Well here's my first post (apart from the welcome thread!!) on the new forum.

As many of you will know, my big red piggy, Annie, has been having some dental issues. They seem to have been going on for a few months now.
We first noticed back in June that Annie's teeth were not right. She had broken off her top incisors and the bottom ones had grown to a very long length.
A quick visit to the local rescue and then the vet got the situation under control but gave no indication why it had happened. After Xrays it became apparent that Annie had a quite severe bony infection in her jaw and skull. Whether this caused the teeth to break or the broken teeth caused the infection we will never know, but it left Annie with uneven dentition. The plan had been to remove all her incisors and see if they regrew but her jaws were just too fragile and would have collapsed under the manipulation required. So Annie has had a long course of antibiotics, frequent re xrays, plus weekly tooth trimming of the lower teeth. During this time her top teeth appeared to be regrowing but this was an illusion as her gum shrank etc. The top right tooth eventually fell right out and has never regrown. The top left tooth is still there but is not growing and is discoloured and protrudes only slightly from the gum, but is still useful.

So Annie went back for another set of xrays last week. She has been off her antibiotics for a month and we wanted to see how her bones were doing.
The vet is very pleased with her and says that her jaws are almost back to normal as far as mineralisation is concerned. Her upper right incisor has fallen right out and doesn't appear to be growing back, the top left one is there but is not growing at all but is still useful to her (she can still give you a nip if she wishes!!). The bottom two are strong and growing well so have to be trimmed regularly, but Suzy at Glynneath is still taking care of that for us.
Overall we seem to have succeeded in overcoming the bony infection that caused all this in the first place and Annie's teeth have settled down into a new "norm" which seems to be working Ok for her.
The vet thinks that the top teeth probably will not change, but then he said that he didn't expect the jaws to re mineralise in the way that they have so who knows!!

Annie herself is just fab. She is the first out for veggies in the morning and will tell me if I haven't cut them up finely enough for her to manage herself!! She runs zoomies round the pen popcorning like a pup, and if you don't see her teeth you would never know so much has been going on for her.
We'll be returning at the end of January for a follow up xray but it does look as though this is as good as it can get and whilst she is so well and fit and gorgeous , it's quite good enough!!