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I came to this board a while ago, about this subject...trying to see if I'll get any other feedback.
My baby is 4.5 months old, and alas, still has the overbite. She had a perfect sizzors bite when I picked her up, and I noticed that around 11 weeks old, she started to get an overbite.
Is there anyway to correct it without surgery?
As I said, she did have a good bite at 6-11 weeks old, but she hit the 11th week and it started to develop. None of her litter mates have an overbite...
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Krista, the lower jaw grows at a rate different from the muzzle. A puppy can have a perfect scissors bite, then this can change briefly from this to an overshot or even an undershot lower jaw. The muzzle can suddenly grow very quickly in length and the lower jaw has to catch up.
I would give it more time, and it will usually correct itself as the puppy grows.
Bob-O
Blue-Skye as Bob-O said. It usually takes until they are about 8 months maybe a little longer. I am sure she will be fine!
IMO this likely will not correct itself. How how it progressed over the last 6 weeks? Same, better or worse?
Watch for the canines cutting into the gums as it will eventually get infected. Sometimes you have to have the teeth worked on to prevent this.
If I remember correctly last time discusssed the overshot was about 1/2" so it was significient.
I'm taking her into the vet tomorrow, see what they think, and I'll report back, good or bad news. THANKS FOR ALL OF THE HELP AND THE PERSONAL EMAILS! THANKS
I can't find the previous thread, I didn't realise it was so large... if your pup has a really large overbite of 1/2" or more there might be a problem. I think that is kind of alot, and you definately need to watch whats going on with her canines. Let us know what your vet said.
If I am remembering the right pup it was 1/2"..Which is alot.
I would say it's about 1/3 of an inch now...that's still bad, but at least its not a 1/2 inch any more
At least it has improved to sounds like 3/8" of an inch?
Still alot but hope it keeps on getting better. I have seen a couple dogs like this over the years but neither one ever corrected itself back to a correct bite.
One of them the owner had to have the canines filed down due to cutting into the gums as I mentioned earlier.
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