How were you brushing your dog's teeth 2-3 times a week without noticing a severe plaque build-up that takes a long time to form?

Regardless, your dog desperately needs a dental. These teeth are really bad for a 3 year old. I thought it was an elderly dog before I read the caption.

Teeth problems are really common in small breeds, they often need a yearly dental.

Adopted a 14yr old Pom with 6 teeth, we had to get the rest pulled and her little tongue stuck out everyday afterwards, she was the cutest little thing but had one hell of a time trying to eat even her specialty super soft food so I had to spoon feed her. So yea, poms while super cute have bad dental issues!

Veterinary technician here, your dog needs a dental cleaning. Please go to your vet as soon as possible. It will save your dog a lot of pain and could increase their time with you here on earth.

Take your dog to the vet for a teeth cleaning. I'd be more concerned with the gums than the teeth. Teeth issues can be very very costly if ignored.

To keep up with your dogs teeth, brush them with coconut oil and give your dogs raw chicken feet. The raw bones will clean your dogs teeth.

I'm so happy to read this! That is definitely a need for dental surgery. If you can, I'd get some PlaqueOff supplement and start giving it to them immediately to help with gum health. That's a crazy amount of buildup for 3 years old. Do you feed them only wet food?

Dogs actually hide discomfort very well. If we had this much plaque on our teeth, we’d be hurting! Cleaning ASAP and make sure to brush your dogs teeth.

All little dogs have dental issues. Regular yearly teeth cleanings and potential tooth removal are something we should all accept and monitor on a bi-yearly basis as little dog owners!

Small dogs are prone to dental disease due to large teeth in small mouths.

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Toy poodles may easily be one of the breeds most prone to dental disease. Even with yearly teeth cleanings most lose many teeth through their life.

Daily brushing is your best bet for fighting dental disease going forward but sometimes they still loose teeth. At least having the infected ones removed reduces her risk for heart and kidney disease

I would ask your vet if a diet change could be in order. Depending on what your dog eats, how often they eat can impact that. Your vet could look into your personal situation and see if improvements can be made. Things like the correct treats, perhaps a change in the staple diet as well as minimising the table scraps if your dog gets any.

From that it's just the luck of the draw unfortunatly. It sounds like your doing everything possible, brushing and seeing the vet. That's about all that can be done.

Your dog isn't super old by any measure but they are getting on a little and dental issues become much more common with age as well as breed. Freeing up some mouth space could help minimise any future problems.

You may also need to consider diet changes should your dog loose a good number of teeth or if the teeth your dog currantly has become painful. Softer food may be in order and when you get there something for relief. When safe to do so and your vet clears it chew toys can help with the discomfort.

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Thank you all for the help :) I will be following some of the advice and also asking my vet.

The canine clearly needs braces.

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I'm seeing significant gingivitis of the premolars and recession of some premolars and incisors (top and bottom). Usually the back teeth are worse than the front. Your dog probably has significant periodontal disease that may require removal of some diseased teeth to reduce your dog's oral pain. I would not brush his teeth (which can cause pain and probably won't be helpful at this stage) until he's been assessed by a vet under general anesthesia for a comprehensive oral examination.

No, his gums look red and inflamed and two or three of his teeth, look bad and decayed, it would be best to let your vet have a look, before he starts to.get any pain from them.

Baby need a teeth cleaning!!

Prepare for the cost of a dentistry soon.

If you can get into their mouth to take these pictures you can absolutely brush their teeth. This could cause serious health issues

I'd trust your vet for now and stick with trying to brush his teeth, it's only a month. You can even brush daily, I do that with my dog.

When you say his tooth looks really bad, is it just covered in a lot of plaque/tartar, or does it look black/rotting? Is he showing other signs of tooth pain, reluctance to eat/chew, doesn't like you touching there etc?

There are also products you can put in their food or water to help with plaque and tartar, used in conjunction with brushing and chews they help keep teeth clean. I personally use bluestem dental water additive, all my pets drink from it and their teeth are great. I've also heard excellent things about a powder you sprinkle on kibble called plaque off.

Vet care on an old chi will be very expensive. No way around that. You can call shelters, teaching hospitals, and low cost clinics to see if they would be in budget - you likely won’t get the gold standard of care, but you will get more accessible care. And that’s okay.

Some clinics in the US do dental month in February at a discount…haven’t seen this too much, but it may be an option as well.

Otherwise, there is care credit if you have decent credit and can afford to make small monthly payments on that.

There are likely local low cost veterinary services, but you’ll have to ask around in your own town, county, state etc

Please talk to a vet about this and see if you can work something out. It's possible that your local animal shelter might have low cost vets. Good luck.

Local your rescue Chihuahua rescues, they might be able to assist you. Also, where did you get him from? Some of this should be covered in how you took care of him

EDIT: look into your look vet tech schools or local veterinary schools, he may get procedures for free

Antibiotics to help with possible heart/lung infections (very easy to get with small dogs and bad teeth) and they will help any abscesses from fucked up teeth under the gums. Pain medication because it hurts. Dogs don’t show pain in the same way, but it fucking hurts. Also making the food mush. Soaking dry and wet food (whatever you use.) Bad teeth do significantly shorten life spans because of the health problems that stem from them so long term antibiotics aren’t an issue if they are already old.

Edit: Walmart should have a $4 prescription of antibiotics on the list. And tramadol is a good pain med for dogs and it’s cheap. Get a vet to give you these or similar until you can work out dental care.

Yes this looks normal to me. Start to brush you dog’s teeth weekly or 2x a week with coconut oil on a toothbrush, it helps a lot!

You can use frozen raw marrow bones as a teeth cleaning item. I give my dog them a few times a week per the vet recommendations and it makes a big difference in his cleanliness. They try to get to the marrow and scrape the tartar off their teeth in the process! Adds a fair bit of fat to their diet so start off small or they risk getting the runs initially.

Should get annual teeth cleaning. Since you said other side is white. Your dog must chew more on one side. Even us humans tend to favor one side while chewing.

Tooth below also. Do you brush?

Yes, normal. Try to brush

Doggie dentist. Soft food for now.

It could be worth bringing it up with your vet especially if he's still quite young in case he's deficient in something that is weakening his teeth, or you're worried about the condition of his teeth

Otherwise try to keep his teeth clean-ish and keep an eye for any signs of pain/difficulty or disinterest in chewing in case he has an exposed nerve. If possible switch to soft things like soft toys or soft chewies instead of hard things like bully sticks/bones/antlers etc

Unfortunately some dogs are predisposed to wanting to chew things that are bad for their teeth, my boy used to like ripping panels off our wooden fences with his teeth and chewing them 🙃

My last girl broke most of her teeth going after… doorknobs.

Vet said that she might need to get dental work done if things got infected, but she lived until she was 12 with all her teeth.

We had a similar issue thanks to plastic frisbees. All our female’s front teeth are about half height, molars are somewhat filed down, canines broken, and we had 5 teeth removed. Go to the derby it’s and get them checked. No ice. No hard toys. No bones. Any toy you can make a mark in with your thumbnail is allowed.

Get some enzymatic doggie toothpaste and brush twice a day. Even with the root showing some teeth will sorta heal over and be totally fine so long as you are vigilant with brushing and keep hard stuff outta their mouths. The dentist can tell you what looks dead already and will need to be pulled and what can try to be saved.

They can't fix his chipped teeth or diagnose him with anything, so they can't actually help the problem. You can literally see exposed nerves, the only thing that can help that is the vet.

Reddit people can't do anything, if you're concerned go to a vet!

Impossible to tell. Could be tooth problems, could be a really bad headache. Get him seen by a vet if it doesn't stop by tomorrow

Go to the vet, or at least call your vet. Weird little small movements can be indicative of very large problems sometimes. Toothache? Brain tumour? Your dog's mouth being dry? I would ask a vet.

My dog does that mlem thing when she is nauseous, caused by reflux problems

My dog does it too. I forgot the reason. Check on Google.

He could be nauseous.