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Hi everyone. Some might remember me having problems with weight loss in my chin Polo. He had started to gain more weight and then dropped again. I took him into the vet today for more x-rays and for blood work to be done. Turns out upon different views in an x-ray that Polo's lower roots of his teeth are growing close to his jaw. Now the vet wants to see if there is anything in the blood work (which I will find out tomorrow) that might be causing the weight loss, lethargy, etc because they are not sure if it is close enough to the jawline to be causing him pain yet and want to make sure there isn't another problem.
I am pretty sure it's his teeth, but am trying to be optimistic. I know that if this is causing him pain I won't put him through this. I also can't believe it because I went through the same thing with my chin, Rugby, in April of 07, but his roots were elongated and growing into his eye sockets, so we knew he was definitely in pain. Since I went through this already I am not ignorant to it, so please know I will do what is best for him despite how absolutely devastating this is to go through AGAIN in less than a year.
All that background to ask, My question is, when I was doing research on malo I came up with some interesting research that I wanted to put out there and get opinions on. I found several websites talking about root elongation sometimes being caused by environmental factors, not genetics. That sometimes this can happen due to a lack of Vitamin C and calcium and there are several people out there who swear this has stopped their chins root elongation. Does anyone have any experience with this?
I am not trying to delay the inevitable in my chin, nor get my hopes up or anyone elses, I am just very curious. Especially since it seems like what are the odds that I had two chins from two different breeders at two different points in time that both have (had) tooth elongation.
I can post some of the websites that I found that explains this fairly well, if I am allowed to do so for further info.
Thanks in advance everyone! I am very interested in what everyone has to say...
I am pretty sure it's his teeth, but am trying to be optimistic. I know that if this is causing him pain I won't put him through this. I also can't believe it because I went through the same thing with my chin, Rugby, in April of 07, but his roots were elongated and growing into his eye sockets, so we knew he was definitely in pain. Since I went through this already I am not ignorant to it, so please know I will do what is best for him despite how absolutely devastating this is to go through AGAIN in less than a year.
All that background to ask, My question is, when I was doing research on malo I came up with some interesting research that I wanted to put out there and get opinions on. I found several websites talking about root elongation sometimes being caused by environmental factors, not genetics. That sometimes this can happen due to a lack of Vitamin C and calcium and there are several people out there who swear this has stopped their chins root elongation. Does anyone have any experience with this?
I am not trying to delay the inevitable in my chin, nor get my hopes up or anyone elses, I am just very curious. Especially since it seems like what are the odds that I had two chins from two different breeders at two different points in time that both have (had) tooth elongation.
I can post some of the websites that I found that explains this fairly well, if I am allowed to do so for further info.
Thanks in advance everyone! I am very interested in what everyone has to say...