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by sands904 on 6/12/2008 at 7:07 PM in Vet Visits

This is a follow up to my earlier post on 4/28/2008 at 7:54 PM. Well, I gave Lacey the last one of the new treats we had and now she has a chipped tooth. She chipped her back left molar. So, I think it really was the new chew we gave her that made her loose the tooth. They were 'Hartz Dentist's Best Chew Treats' for small dogs. I DON'T recommend them. We have given her the Hartz rawhides without any problem, but these are obviously too hard for her teeth. I fell so bad. I should have know that that was the cause and thrown the last one away. We took her to the vet and she said it looks like everything will be okay and that it didn't get into the tooth pulp. We have to keep an eye on it and take her in if it looks bad or changes colors which will mean it got infected. I really hope she is okay. She has been through too much in her short little life already to have to add a root canal to the list. Wish her luck!
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by sands904 on 4/28/2008 at 7:54 PM in Lacey

Yesterday we took Lacey and Logan for a walk. My husband was wearing his big steel toe work boots (not sure why :). While Lacey was walking she walked a little too close and he bumped her in the mouth with his foot. It didn't seem that hard at the time. She didn't make any noise or act like she was in pain. Later that night I heard her chewing on something and went to see what it was. It appeared to be one of her teeth. I took it from her and looked around in her mouth. Yep, she was missing one of her middle teeth on the left side of her mouth, the opposite side she would have been bumped on during the walk. We had also given her a new kind of dental treat earlier in the day. I don't know if either one of these is the reason her tooth fell out or if they are completely unrelated. I have never experienced anything like this. I don't know if we should take her into the vet to haver her teeth examined. There isn't really anything they can do about the tooth she already lost, but I am worried. Her teeth just shouldn't be falling out like that...
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