Allison
Eight years ago when I started to be concerned over the number of dogs with missing teeth I decided to have my litter of four have their mouths x-rayed. Puppies were mildly sedated and x-rays were taken. My vet of thirty years announced that all pups had all their buds for their adult teeth.
Great news.....one less thing to worry about! After they had all finished teething two had full dentition. Of the other two, one had two missing pre-molars, the other had one missing pre-molar.
The buds will probably be there on the x-ray, the question is will they erupt!
Good Luck
Allison
Eight years ago when I started to be concerned over the number of dogs with missing teeth I decided to have my litter of four have their mouths x-rayed. Puppies were mildly sedated and x-rays were taken. My vet of thirty years announced that all pups had all their buds for their adult teeth.
Great news.....one less thing to worry about! After they had all finished teething two had full dentition. Of the other two, one had two missing pre-molars, the other had one missing pre-molar.
The buds will probably be there on the x-ray, the question is will they erupt!
Good Luck
They won't if there is not enough room due to too short a muzzle!!! Can't grab a duck or goose properly either!
That may be the case sometimes, but I have one that has plenty of space for the 1st lower premolar that didn't come in.
It's there alright, on xray, it just did not break the gum line, the other did come in. This dog is not short muzzled, there was obviously room around the tooth, and she is in fact from multiple generations of high level hunt test and hunting dogs. Don't know which of the premolars were missing in the case of Diane's pups, but it seems like sometimes those first premolars are just too tiny to surface.
I do think you're right in the case of my short muzzled pet girl, who seems to be missing all four backmost molars, they may be there somewhere, like impacted wisdom teeth, or not there at all...
