Guinea Pig Teeth Overgrown

Their front teeth should meet evenly in the middle and you should check regularly to ensure they do so.

Guinea pig teeth overgrown. Trauma or infection can injure the teeth predisposing them to faulty growth patterns. Maloccluded teeth can cause sores injuries and infections in your guinea pigs mouth. Furthermore the overgrown teeth will prevent chewing and eating of food often resulting in guinea pig weight loss. Malocclusion is the fancy term for overgrown teeth.

These overgrown teeth prevent the normal chewing and eating of food and can cause sores and injuries to the mouth. If the incisors grow past their lips they re too long. In a healthy guinea pig the biting chewing and grinding of food especially hays grasses and abrasive foods will normally keep the teeth at the proper length a length which varies somewhat from one guinea pig to another guinea lynx adds. Guinea pigs have very long teeth that are needed to break up their food which can often be very tough.

They have incisors in the front which are the sharp teeth you can see. The teeth grow constantly from birth to death and with some softer diets this constant growth can cause problems. This educational video shows two types of tools can be used to clip the overgrown front teeth. Generally speaking if the front teeth are overgrown the back molars are going to be as well.

Teeth can overgrow for several reasons the most common are an improper diet illness or sometimes just due to genetics. They also have molars in the back of their mouths that you cannot see. Some malocclusion is believed to be genetic especially in cases where guinea pigs younger than two years are maloccluded. This poor guinea pig was hit with a double whammy extra front teeth that are also overgrown.

Like many other rodents guinea pigs teeth grow continually throughout their lives. Guinea pigs have open rooted teeth meaning they are forever growing. A guinea pig s teeth will grow their whole lives which means you can end up with a piggy with pretty long teeth. A simple cutter and the dremel tool.

While both their front and back teeth can become overgrown at the same time it s more common for it to happen to their front teeth.