My 6 month old male GSD is almost done teething. One of his canine teeth never pushed out the baby tooth and it doesn't look like it's going to. I want him to start biting and tugging once his adult teeth are in but it doesn't look like that one baby tooth is going to be pushed out. What can I do about it?
Get the dog to your vet and get it pulled NOW. It can skew the whole mouth if it does not come out and cause permanent disfigurement.
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It is difficult for anyone to tell you what to do without seeing the dogs teeth. I have raised a lot of pups in the past 40 plus years of owning GSD's. I have never pulled a baby tooth and I have never seen on I felt needed to be pulls. Give the pup a bone to chew on - that will help loosen the tooth and it will come when the time is right.
I have a 6 month pup who also had a double tooth - until a few days ago - i didnt worry about it, like Ed said i gave a good rawhide bone for him to chew on and it came out.
To say that it would cause permenent disfigurement is a bit of an over dramatisation. the dogs adult teeth come through on a set path, and even at this stage are solid - the baby teeth no longer have any roots and so are just attatched in the gum line, they will not cause the adult teeth to grow through 'out of line', they will just be forced out as the adult teeth grow - this coupled with the dogs natural instinct to chew at this time to free the baby teeth, you have nothing to worry about.
Well, I did have one and the vet kept telling me not wo worry and would not pull the baby tooth, and the lower canine aimed inward and poked the roof of the mouth. It would have gone through had I not had "braces" to repair it.
This was not cosmetic. The canine was defintiely going to go through the roof of his mouth.
It is a lot cheaper to take a pair of pliers and yank out the baby tooth (once it has turned brown) than pay for braces for a dog. I did that for a retained tooth with my current dog.
A retained baby tooth WILL alter the path of the adult teeth. I have a few teeth that are out of alignment for this very reason, and have seen the same in dogs. I had the choice between Auster or braces, so I don't have any experience with how well they work <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/laugh.gif" alt="" /> (my teeth aren't that bad).
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He actually has TWO canines that're doubled. He's got a vet appointment this Tuesday to get it checked out...my vet said his adult canines may move backwards and knock them out and if not she'll pull them. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/wink.gif" alt="" />
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