A week of diseased canine teeth in cats

It seems like some weeks have themes.  This week it was diseased canine teeth in cats.  You may have already read about Sadie.

There was this tooth in an geriatric kitty named Trixie.

The root was undergoing external resorption from an old fracture and had severe periodontal disease.

The tooth had to be extracted.  And the other upper canine was not in much better shape and needed to be extracted as well.  Trixie is a very sweet kitty and did great.  Even at age 13!

Then there is this kitty.  She is only seven years old and had all her cheek teeth removed about 3 years ago.  Since then she has had progressive periodontal disease of all 4 canine teeth.  So we went ahead and removed the all remaining teeth.  I was hoping that when we removed all of her other teeth 3 years ago that she would be able to keep these for longer, but some animals have more severe periodontal disease for reasons that we do not entirely understand.

Cats do amazingly well without their teeth.  I have lots of kitty patients without any teeth. It is much better to have healthy gums than diseased teeth.  

I wonder what next week's theme will be?