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Junior Guinea Pig
Hello, it's me again (I swear my piggies want to give me a heart attack)
This is Tebet, a 2-year-old female.
A few months ago, no one knows how, her lower incisor broke in half in a vertical fracture, which is odd. This tooth was surgically repaired and grew back, but still with the fracture mark. As soon as the fragmented half reached the height of the others and made contact with the upper incisor, the fracture opened and broke again. This has been a recurring occurrence, and since she doesn't seem to be in any pain or have any problems eating, the vet thought it best to leave it as it was (in the photo, she has the fragment almost complete, but it is normal for her to have an incisor and a half in the lower gum).
Well, we continued like this for months, always monitoring the health of these teeth.
This week, I noticed the appearance of some darker, rougher spots on her teeth, forming lines. There seems to be a depression in these points of the tooth. She doesn't feel any pain and is eating normally. The vet suggested enamel malformation, something that can happen due to trauma, lack of vitamins or when the pig keeps chewing on the bars of the pen. But she hasn't had any accidents, takes her vitamin C daily and doesn't chew much on things... Has anyone seen anything like this?
I'll post a photo from the time of the fracture too so you can understand what happened. The vet suggested that she may have some genetic fragility in her teeth.
This is Tebet, a 2-year-old female.
A few months ago, no one knows how, her lower incisor broke in half in a vertical fracture, which is odd. This tooth was surgically repaired and grew back, but still with the fracture mark. As soon as the fragmented half reached the height of the others and made contact with the upper incisor, the fracture opened and broke again. This has been a recurring occurrence, and since she doesn't seem to be in any pain or have any problems eating, the vet thought it best to leave it as it was (in the photo, she has the fragment almost complete, but it is normal for her to have an incisor and a half in the lower gum).
Well, we continued like this for months, always monitoring the health of these teeth.
This week, I noticed the appearance of some darker, rougher spots on her teeth, forming lines. There seems to be a depression in these points of the tooth. She doesn't feel any pain and is eating normally. The vet suggested enamel malformation, something that can happen due to trauma, lack of vitamins or when the pig keeps chewing on the bars of the pen. But she hasn't had any accidents, takes her vitamin C daily and doesn't chew much on things... Has anyone seen anything like this?
I'll post a photo from the time of the fracture too so you can understand what happened. The vet suggested that she may have some genetic fragility in her teeth.
