Fuzz lost a tooth

Hi all, just checking in, fuzz is doing well numbers wise and overall appearance and weight, eating and drinking like normal and using the box normal, no ketones since our last battle with them a few years ago. Saturday morning though i found one of his teeth on the floor, the root part was all full of holes and rotted looking, he is in no pain, let me look at his mouth and no bleeding or anything but i was just concerned. i know he needs his teeth cleaned, we have tried brushing them but haven't been too good at it. a couple of other teeth look a little shaky too. should i be really worried or is this a normal thing

 

I've never seen a cat lose a tooth like that.. I think that if things are rotten enough that a tooth can just fall out, it's time for Fuzz to go to the dentist.

 

Some cats loose teeth due to FORLs (Feline oral resorptive lesions). The teeth essentially go a way at the gum line and thus become weak and can easily break with normal use. See:
http://www.avds-online.org/info/felinelesions.html

 

we just took mocha in for a dental. We thought she had a dead tooth up front. One of those really really tiny ones in between the canines. Well, once she was actually in the vet, the vet called us and told us that mocha needed 8 teeth pulled out, due to the FORL's, and what we thought was a dead tooth, was actually a hole where the tiny tooth had fallen out. When I asked how it would just fall out, the vet told me most likely it had a FORL on it (a lesion) that caused it to fall out.

 

So do you think he definitely needs a cleaning and extractions? i don't know if i can afford it, they said just a cleaning would be like 500.

 

Ask your vet about the need for a dental. Most cats will allow a vet to look into their mouth to get a good idea if a dental is called for. It is very hard to look into Fuzz's mount from here.

 

Please do try to get him in for a dental check, because for older sugarcats the infection that often accompanies this situation can lead to larger, more scary problems. You would be surprised how often we've seen here how chronic dental problems are mistaken for "he's really getting old all of a sudden".

 

LOL thanks, I have to get him in for a check up anyway so i'll have them look then. Thanks for your help.