Food stuck in side of mouth

No_Angel

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Last night when we went to check the horses and noticed Ceryn had a hard lump at the side of her face. First off we panicked and thought it was an abcess or something, then I had a rumage with my finger and found it was a big lump of grass in her cheek pushed up next to her top teeth. I managed to push the lump out and she looked fairly normal again, checked her again this morning and she had a little bit but not as much.
Im wondering if she has a problem with her teeth, she had a complete overhaul a few months before we got her, I have the sheet for it but cant really understand it:o Anyone any ideas what might be causing this?
 
Molly had this - it is probably a gap in her teeth and that is why it is lodging there.

With Molly I had to pick it out every day and then it just seemed to cure itself.
 
Yes, my previous horse had this and he too had a gap which was caused by loose gums, his teeth were actually wobbling. It turned out he had not had his teeth looked at for a very long time and there was old food that had been decaying up there for ages and was packed in to the gap....urrgghhh :eek:. As more food was added it caused a big lump in the side of his face. Luckily I got the dentist out as soon as we bought him.

Anyway, I syringed twice a day with salt water and this tightened the looseness, made the teeth more firm and decreased the gap....all this of course done on the advice of my equine dentist.
So, I would advise you to get an EDT out to check, of course there could be other reasons, but this is a good first step! Sorry for waffling on!
 
You need to get him looked at by either a very good EDT or a good dental vet (some are pants :rolleyes: ). If he's got a gap this lower tooth will be growing at a faster rate and not being worn down, which leads to what's called 'step' mouth. There is also the chance of small gaps forming between the rest of that archade as the tooth is no longer there to pack them together and squeeze them tight. If they have small gaps they get little bits of grass down into them which is them rammed into the gum as it fills up - very very painful :(

Do you still have his dental recond? - if you PM it to me I'll have a look (if I can read their hand-writting;))
 
Hey so I have a question! Very important! So j was feeding a horse at the barn I ride at, and this horse has been there a while and known can feed him. So I fed him a mint and he started making very odd faces, like upper lip going up and down and sticking his tongue out. I think that mint was partly melted making it stuck in his teeth somewhere. Will he be alright once the mint dissolves?
 
Hey so I have a question! Very important! So j was feeding a horse at the barn I ride at, and this horse has been there a while and known can feed him. So I fed him a mint and he started making very odd faces, like upper lip going up and down and sticking his tongue out. I think that mint was partly melted making it stuck in his teeth somewhere. Will he be alright once the mint dissolves?
Sounds like flehmen response, they often do this when the taste is unusual or stronger than expected, totally normal.

I wouldn’t give boiled sweets to horses though, from your description of it being sticky I presume that’s what you gave, they could get stuck or cause choke. Hard mints are ok, but the type that are more crumbly and don’t go sticky.
 
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