Guinea pig tooth

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I need help I never had a Guinea lose a tooth and my Guinea lost one bottom tooth and his top tooth is bigger then the other how do I fix this and what food can I feed him he really won’t eat some food
 
You need to get a recovery feed like critical care and syringe feed him until you can see a vet.
 
Please see a vet.
The teeth need to be checked to ensure the broken one is going to grow back healthily - is the remainder of the tooth still visible above the gum line?
Growing back to normal length will take weeks.
If his top tooth has nothing to wear against (ie the bottom tooth is missing) then the vet may need to deal with it.

Please switch from the routine weekly weight checks and instead weigh him daily. You must step in with syringe feeding a recovery feed if your piggy is not eating hay. This is to prevent stasis is your piggy is not able to eat hay fibre for himself.
You need to feed at least 60ml per 24 hours but the weight checks are to ensure that you are feeding enough to keep his weight stable each - he could need as much as 100ml of syringe feed each day.
You can use mushed pellets in the absence of recovery feed.

You can also cut veggies into thin slithers and offer them to him.

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