About 7:15 last night I noticed Tommy was drooling, and thought, well that's odd. Opened his mouth, he shook to get out of my grasp and . . . his fang dropped out! He is an indoor only cat, about age 5 years.
It was after hours (of course!) so I went online asking for help if I needed to get him to the ER or not. Folks said not, so we waited till this morning.
I took some photos, but my camera doesn't like doing things this small.
I tried a butter knife in this one for size
And a ruler, it is a full INCH long!
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Tommy saw the vet this morning. He had a shot of Convenia for antibiotics, and a shot of (I forget!) for inflammation. The vet said in this case (no roots, no bleeding) we were fine to wait till this morning. Tommy probably was not comfortable and was feeling it, but not too bad and both the shots will help him feel better. She expected to see a mouth full of tartar and plaque as that is normally the case when a tooth drops out -- but no, the rest of his teeth look good! So it is odd. He has a bit of tartar, nothing unusual for a 5 year old cat, and better than many.
My vet said / agreed with much of what I'd learned last night from folks online. It didn't need an ER trip; the canine is at least half up in the gum, and half showing; usually the tooth breaks off and because so much of it is under the gum, the vets have a time of it digging around to get the rest out so we were lucky it came out whole; and lucky he didn't swallow it, lol. And yes he DID save me money by having it drop out like this.
It sure was a shocker when that tooth dropped and hit the table last night, ha haa.