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rottweiler's teeth and mouth
This citation from ADRK («German») Rottweiler Standard: «Jaws / Teeth: Upper and lower jaw strong and broad. Strong complete dentition (42 teeth) with scissor bite, the upper incisors closely overlapping the lower incisors.»
And this citation from AKC («American») Rottweiler Standard: «Bite and Dentition: Teeth 42 in number (20 upper, 22 lower), strong, correctly placed, meeting in a scissors bite-lower incisors touching inside of upper incisors.»
• prophylactic care for rottweiler's teeth
Rottweiler's teeth are quite good cleaned while dog eats rusks or chews a bone (value of bones is that they provide both teeth care and exercising chewing muscles). Beef bones may be given from time to time to a dog with healthy teeth though keep in mind that bones are hard to digest and may cause constipation. Dogs' rusks or chewing bones made of skin are designated for a reason of the same kind. Do not give bones at all to older pets or ones with digestive tract pathology. It's important that firm long bones, birds bones especially (chicken, for example), may split and harm intestine.
Staggering teeth shall be removed. As modern dog doesn't hunt and has no need to hold a hunt and rip it using teeth, a dog can nicely live further without defected teeth. Unfortunately, that may mean cease of exhibitions as standard states «absence of one incisive tooth, or one fang, or one premolar either molar» (ADRK) and «two or more missing teeth» (AKC) disqualifying flaw.
On other hand, modern technologies allow to extend broken tooth using new composite materials, and there's already practice of this procedure. Anyway it's you to decide, but does any exhibition worth constant tooth ache and coming complications?
Milk teeth shall be removed also, if they aren't by themselves at a time. Otherwise they may become a reason of wrong position of succeeding permanent teeth.
• removal of soft deposit
To remove soft deposit on the teeth best of all use cotton tampon wet in 3% solution of peroxide. Though usually this thorough procedure of teeth cleanup doesn't save from teeth scaling (deposit of caked salts). Grow of scale leads to gingivitis and rot smell from a mouth. Scale shall be timely removed by vet. After the liquidation of the nidus dog gets back to wellbeing; harmful toxins which had been received before the curing which could lead, for example, to chronic valvulitis.
• first aid on stomatitis and pharyngitis
Stomatitis (inflammation of mouth mucous).
Main signs: dog eats carefully, sialorrhea, thirst; mouth examination shows hyperemia and swelling of mouth mucous, further appearing of blebs filled with liquid, aphthae, gums bleeding; on chronic stomatitis — bad smell from the mouth.
First aid: rinse a mouth with dilution (light-pink) of potassium permanganate or 2% dilution of boric acid, treat aphtae with 5% iodine solution; 1—2 days of banting, provide ample supply of water, then give mucilaginous soups and sufficient vitamins; if a dog doesn't recover, call a vet.
Pharingitis (inflammation of a throat mucous).
Main signs: general depression, on palpation pain in the throat area, slight temperature increase. On the throat examination hyperemia and swelling of mucous are found; extraneous body in the throat makes a dog worry, try to get rid of this body using own paws, causes sialorrhea and vomit.
First aid: state a reason of the sickness, exclude case of rabies, show ill pet to a vet. Diet is set for the dog: mucilaginous soups, washbrews; hot compress on the throat area, lamp diathermy used for human treatment (as for angina treatment) also helps a lot.
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