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Hi, my 4 months old gsd puppy has a 4 mm overshot. 3 weeks ago she had a nice scissors bite. She still has her puppy canines and their are in perfect scissors position. But i m worried if she will have her scissors bite back, or will that overshot be permanent
thanks for any advice

Lucy, have you pictures to show your concern? Without them most replies are guesses. Breeders will tell you that a pups bite can change or rather will improve with proper growth for their age.

Does it really? I don't know.

I have a pic but have no idea how to upload it

I was going to send you to the Tutorial page, but I realized there seems to be missing instruction on just posting a photo in a post, using the CKEditor.

Hang on, I will make you a "cheat sheet". 

Or if you are computer savvy, start by clicking on the Mountain/Moon icon that is right next to the YouTube icon.

BRB.

• Click on  Moon/Mountain icon.
• Choose Upload Tab
• Click Choose File Button (Select the file on your computer/device you are using.)
• Click Send to Server Button (You should see the image in a size box, which is adjustable.)
• Click green OK Button

Hope this helps.

 

Lucy, the bottom jaw is the last to grow in any dog. IMO your dog has a very good chance of ending up with a scissors bite. Many young dogs have bites that change back and forth as they are growing. The canines are right, that's what I always look at.

Lucy,

I second Blitzen

According to my dogs dentist, dogs jaws grow at different rates.

As a puppy my dogs lower jaw looked like that and as an adult he has a nice scissor bite.

As a side note, keep an eye on the growth of the permanent canines. If they start to come in and the puppy canines do not look/ feel like they are going come out on their own, do not wait, have them pulled. I waited and as a result one adult canine came in crooked. Hence the reason for the dog dentist. Correcting the position was a major pain in the butt.....Just my .02.

Thanks guys, I was really worried, I just hope that my pups jaw will also be ok :-)