How to Remove Cat Milk Teeth

How to Remove Cat Milk Teeth
Hi this is Dr. Greg McDonald and I am here for Expert Village.com and we are talking about dental disease in cats and things you can do at home as well as with your veterinarian to make the teeth of your cat much healthier. Cats are born with what people often call them milk teeth but they are baby teeth that are going to be lost. Probably about 6 months of age your cat should have no more baby teeth. These baby teeth are also called deciduous teeth. The deciduous teeth will occasionally be retained which means that they have an adult tooth that comes out and it is right next to the baby tooth and the baby tooth does not bleed. The reason that veterinarians get excited about this, this is the model that we looked at before and you can see this is the deciduous tooth, the baby tooth that should have come out and this is the adult tooth that the cat will have for the rest of his life as long as the animal is taken proper care of. So what happens you can see this little place in between here it is a dangerous spot for the animal because a lot of food sticks there and you get some of this gum disease that we talked about earlier. So the care of this is usually in animals that are neutered about 6 months of age. So when we neuter animals at McDonald’s Animal Hospital we always check to be sure that they have lost all of their deciduous teeth. If their deciduous teeth are still present at the time of neutering, we actually remove those teeth. In most cases those teeth are just one or two. Occasionally we will see a lot of deciduous teeth; they should all be removed. There should be no more than one tooth per socket or else you are going to have an unhealthy mouth. Have your veterinarian check for deciduous teeth at about the age of 6 months.