Worried about bottom teeth? Looks painful?

[Lucky4LeafClover]

My Sosuke wasn't acting weird but he was being very cute so I started taking some photos of him and on one his mouth looked odd and so i started lifting his lip up to look at this teeth and in some shots it looked like the bottom ones were misaligned and spread apart and some they looked fine but it looked injured and kind of purple... hes acting normal and eating normal... hes crunching now on a hard crunchy treat no problem but it looked odd to me. I think he was yawning and then grinding a bit and maybe I caught that movement with the camera but the purple-ish looking picture looks weird to me and I just want to make sure its normal, I over worry about everything but I am hopeful that since everything else is normal i just havent ever seen their mouths like that before.

 

[jorats]

His teeth look normal and healthy. All rats' bottom teeth can splay.

 

[amanda1472]

They look perfectly normal to me as well.

 

[dspch911]

Glad I'm not the only one that over worries. For the longest time I thought the orange teeth were bad and I needed to figure out a way to brush them :emb: good thing I read on here that was good or the boys may have ended up with dental cleaning.. :laugh4: Glad you baby is just fine.... :heart: :joy:

 

[RattusNorvegicus]

The purple is normal, as well as when they splay their teeth. I notice when they are falling asleep or comfy they will move their bottom incisors in a scissor motion, then they will start bruxing. Here is a picture of Ellie's perfectly healthy teeth/mouth.
Hopefully the picture will be helpful.

You want to look out for misalignment's seen in the photos on this article:
http://ratguide.com/health/digestive/malocclusion.php

 

[Lucky4LeafClover]

Ok good to know thanks every one I just want my boys to feel their best.

 

[amanda1472]

^^ sometimes some rats can have funny looking teeth, but your little guys teeth look like my rats, which are healthy.

This is Teddy.

 

[Aida]

Those teeths look grade-A to me.

Here is an awesome article about rat teeth, explaining it all, like why they spread and stuff: http://www.ratbehavior.org/Teeth.htm