What is the reason for cats to lose teeth? Have you ever seen your cat owner lose teeth? Healthy cats always have white teeth, and we can often experience the power of cats’ teeth in person. However, sometimes we will pick up some strange things on the floor of the room, such as cats’ teeth, which means that cats have lost their teeth. The loss of teeth may be caused by a variety of reasons, which may be ordinary tooth replacement or an oral disease.
1. Tooth replacement
Cats start to grow teeth approximately 2 weeks after birth, and 26 teeth grow in about one month. The baby teeth fall off around 3 months of birth, and at 5 to 6 months, 30 new teeth grow together.
From the fifth month after birth, cats start to change their canine teeth. At this time, when you open the cat's mouth, you can often see that the gums on the cat's canine teeth are slightly red, which is a sign of new teeth. In another week or two, you can see that the cat has four canine teeth on its upper jaw or lower jaw, that is, there are two teeth on the same canine teeth, one is slightly thick, and this is the newly grown teeth. As the new teeth grow, the breast canine teeth are slowly loosened and fall off and are spit out by the cat. If you observe carefully, you may pick up the cat's small teeth. Keeping the cat's baby teeth can also be regarded as a commemoration!
When the cat is four or five months old, the director may lose his appetite during the tooth change stage. At this time, on the one hand, you should pay attention to the growth of the teeth in the cat's mouth, and on the other hand, you should provide it with chewy food to protect new teeth.
A year after the kitten is born, the front teeth of the lower jaw begin to wear, and seven years later, the canine teeth gradually age. In the seventh year, the front teeth of the lower jaw became round; the ten-year-old cat had all the front teeth of the upper jaw. Careful cat owners should prepare different foods for cats by observing the changes in cats’ teeth to benefit the cat’s health.
2. Periodontitis, periodontitis and other dental diseases can cause tooth loss. If periodontitis causes the tissue cells supporting the teeth to be destroyed, the teeth will also loosen and fall off. Because periodontitis is accompanied by severe pain, it hates things that touch its mouth and is unwilling to eat.
If the symptoms worsen, osteomyelitis will appear on the chin bone and the pus at the root of the teeth will break out of the skin. Once this happens, you must receive special treatment as early as possible, so take it to the hospital as soon as possible. In treatment, the first thing to do is to control the infection. Penicillin 50,000 units/kg body weight, dexamethasone 0.5 mg/kg body weight, mixed with one intramuscular injection, 2 times/day. Gentamicin 10,000 units/kg body weight, dexamethasone 0.5 mg/kg body weight, mixed with one intramuscular injection, 2 times/day. The second is supportive therapy. For cats with reduced appetite, glucose and compound saline should be intravenously infused with oral vitamin B preparations.
In addition, when the kitten changes teeth three months after birth or when he is old, he will lose teeth without any disease.
3. Aging
The gums and alveolars of 12-13-year-old cats begin to relax and their teeth will fall off. It is not sick at this time, so don't worry, but the food is chewing less than enough. At this time, you can't feed the food it eats when you were young, and help it replace it with easy-to-digest and chewy food.
When an elderly cat loses teeth, first check whether it has oral diseases and whether it is tooth loss caused by oral diseases. If you are then seeing a dentist, cleaning your teeth and removing tartar is necessary. If not, it is usually caused by the decline of physical function in elderly cats, and the teeth of older cats also begin to age and slowly fall off.
In addition, dental diseases are mostly caused by bacterial infection, so preventing the production of tartar or tartar is the first step in prevention. Observe the oral condition more often on weekdays and treat your teeth with a toothbrush or gauze. It is beneficial for cats' teeth and oral health care.