02/21/2025
Is it even possibly to not love a golden puppy?!? You may ask yourself, why might a puppy need to see the dentist already? Most of the puppies we see are due to a malocclusion, and in a lot of cases this is caused by persistent deciduous teeth (baby teeth that are not falling out on schedule). Not monitoring or treating these teeth can lead to many problems!
In this case, the deciduous teeth had fallen out, but not soon enough which caused the adult canine (404) to erupt in the incorrect position. 404 is severely linguoversed and under erupted creating traumatic contact palatal to 103-104 (ouch!).
Treatment options for this tooth include orthodontics, shortening of the crown+vital pulp therapy, or extraction.