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Originally Posted by masraum
Our Sherlock only had about 3 teeth left at the end. The vet told us that dog mouth health is mostly down to genetics. Some dogs rolled a snake eyes on that one.
We didn't always brush sherlock but for the last 5 years or so, he got his teeth brushed after every meal, and it didn't make a difference. Every check up he had more tooth issues.
THe important thing is that you're getting it taken care of.
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Turns out it was a lot more than 10.
TIL dogs have 42 teeth.
The doc said for a lot of them, it wasn't so much pulling the tooth as just plucking it out. He's lost all his front teeth top and bottom between the canines, and a lot of his other upper teeth, and a couple more on the bottom. 5 had already fallen out on their own. So now he has 7 upper teeth, and 12 lower teeth.
He's home and still loopy from the anesthesia.
As far as genetics go, this is the dog whose hair matted over his butthole so he couldn't poop. This happened when he was a puppy, and now any time a piece of poop sticks to his hair he freaks out and runs to the back door, frantically pawing on it to let him back it. Which of course we don't want to do, because we don't want that in the house.