I brought my rat in to the vet to have her teeth inspected because she was having some issues, wasn’t informed that there was anything wrong at any point with her teeth and a few days after getting her teeth “fixed” she’s now missing a tooth completely!
I took my pet rat Notorious DOT in to have her teeth filed because the top teeth were uneven and it looked like the top left one had cracked and the vet trimmed them instead. I noticed a week later her bottom teeth were already off by two milimeters and the top teeth were still just as bad as before and called the vet out saying I dont think they were filed. The office informed me the teeth had been trimmed, not filed. (Not what I had asked for as I read trimming can cause damage and a tooth to crack or shatter and I was concerned in the first place about the tooth already being cracked so I wanted it filed, and it didn’t look like the top had been addressed at all to me as it still looked like one was cracked off and half as long) so I complained I took her back in and the vet sedated her to actually file them. I took her home and inspected her a day later when the anesthesia had worn off and it looked to me like the tooth was now completely gone with a black hole in the gum where a tooth should be. I called the vet who said nothing about her tooth looking damaged, or a missing tooth. I brought her back in and the vet sedated her again, filed her teeth, again, and said her tooth had completely rotted out at the base! This is all within weeks of the initial trim. He said she must have done something to it in the following days after the visit... while she was inactive and sedated. I don’t believe that. I’m wondering how my rats tooth could have completely rotted out in a week and the vet not have noticed when sedated the first time that there was an issue with the tooth? Could the vet have cracked the tooth during the initial trim and caused the tooth damage? She now only has one top tooth and her bottom grow so quickly they need trimming bi-weekly. I feel the vet is responsible for her tooth missing now and am not sure what to do?
I took my pet rat Notorious DOT in to have her teeth filed because the top teeth were uneven and it looked like the top left one had cracked and the vet trimmed them instead. I noticed a week later her bottom teeth were already off by two milimeters and the top teeth were still just as bad as before and called the vet out saying I dont think they were filed. The office informed me the teeth had been trimmed, not filed. (Not what I had asked for as I read trimming can cause damage and a tooth to crack or shatter and I was concerned in the first place about the tooth already being cracked so I wanted it filed, and it didn’t look like the top had been addressed at all to me as it still looked like one was cracked off and half as long) so I complained I took her back in and the vet sedated her to actually file them. I took her home and inspected her a day later when the anesthesia had worn off and it looked to me like the tooth was now completely gone with a black hole in the gum where a tooth should be. I called the vet who said nothing about her tooth looking damaged, or a missing tooth. I brought her back in and the vet sedated her again, filed her teeth, again, and said her tooth had completely rotted out at the base! This is all within weeks of the initial trim. He said she must have done something to it in the following days after the visit... while she was inactive and sedated. I don’t believe that. I’m wondering how my rats tooth could have completely rotted out in a week and the vet not have noticed when sedated the first time that there was an issue with the tooth? Could the vet have cracked the tooth during the initial trim and caused the tooth damage? She now only has one top tooth and her bottom grow so quickly they need trimming bi-weekly. I feel the vet is responsible for her tooth missing now and am not sure what to do?