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Every since Loki broke off his left upper incisor a few weeks ago he is often seen with his tongue sticking out. I think it’s still bothering him, or at least he worries it, not unlike I do with bits of missing parts of my own teeth. I actually need to get about 3 or 4 crowns, but that ain’t gonna happen. Anyhow, that’s a whole other story. Meanwhile, the stump where Loki’s tooth used to be isn’t as red as before so I think (hope) he’s on the mend. Sure hasn’t stopped him eating. It probably just feels weird not having his FANG there anymore, my poor old loveable doof.
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I’m sorry he lost a tooth (though if they live long enough all cats seem to) but I never could resist a little feline blep.
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I’ve never had a cat lose a tooth before. To my knowledge. Maybe because this is one of his big ones that I noticed? I mean, I don’t go rooting around in their mouths… though perhaps I should?
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Because the commonest cause is crown resorption, which mostly causes teeth to fall out bloodlessly and painlessly, you don’t always notice — Loki’s messy presentation is a little unusual. My first cat lost almost all her teeth by the end of her life and had the curly lip thing. Taffy the Terrible, who looked like a relative of Loki and my Fergie, got terrible dental calculus — it would form big stalagmites on his teeth even though he’d get cleanings — and one day when I was scraping off a clump with my fingernail the tooth just fell out in my hand and he was like “whatevs” and walked off. Apricat would get a dental cleaning every year or two and after he hit about ten years old, they’d find a tooth almost every time that was already wiggling and just pop it out while he was sedated, and he never seemed to notice, he’d be right back in the food dish. It’s funny because neither of my girls has ever needed a cleaning and neither did Patty in her day, but orange cats seem to get worse tartar and teeth problems. You got me.
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