Feline dental resorption - any experience?

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Pippi is only 3 - at her annual checkup last year the vet commented on how bad her teeth & gums were for her age, but this year's vet had a closer look, noticed some teeth are already missing & advised total extraction as the best treatment - otherwise her mouth will get more & more painful & she'll eventually stop eating

Cost estimate was £400-450. She is insured, but as dental isn't covered, even though this is actually a disease rather than a condition iyswim, I'm wondering whether there's any point even asking (insurance is Argos). Luckily we can afford it.

Any advice?

I'm sorry she's got problems so young. I would probably get a second opinion and, if they agree, have the teeth removed. Unbeknown to us, Harry had a dental infection that has caused him all sorts of problems over the last 18 months. He fractured his jaw (which was weakened by the infection), had to have 12 teeth out and still has an unstable jaw. To be honest, if the vet says he needs to have more teeth out I will probably ask them to remove them all.

He can eat without a problem, although he has to have wet food only. Not because of his lack of teeth but because if the unstable jaw. The only real difference is his face has changed shape slightly, its narrower now.

Sorry, I hit post too soon. I would definitely put in a claim with the insurance. It was touch and go whether our insurance (Petplan) would pay out so the vet wrote a letter to accompany the claim and it was paid without a problem. They then paid again when the infection returned and he needed another dental.

Poor Harry! This vet said they can eat better with well-healed gums than with dodgy teeth - Pippi doesn't crunch biscuits (I can't remember if she ever did) & often throws them all up again, & also is a bit wary of having her head stroked until she's satisfied you're going behind her ears, so I think it adds up.

Ah, Petplan - they're one of the few who do cover dental treatment anyway.

Somebody suggested she must have calici virus to get it so young, & that the insurer would be more likely to pay out on that basis; but somebody else's cat was actually diagnosed with that & not only did their insurer not pay, they subsequently refused to pay out on anything else because everything was due to "pre-existing condition"

So I'm thinking if I just pay up without informing the insurer she'll be ok with anything else in the future. Maybe!

We did put Harry back on dry food for a while afterwards but every now and then he wouldn't be able to eat them so we decided wet food only was better. His gums were fine, it was his jaw that was still causing the problem.

Before he had his jaw op we used to laugh about Harry inhaling his biscuits. He sometimes used to be sick and (TMI here, sorry!) it contained whole biscuits so what your vet is saying makes sense.

It must be horrible for them to have manky teeth as they can't do anything about it. I hope she's ok, let us know how she gets on.

Pippi's is just the same - complete biscuits, just a bit paler than when they went in! It'll be hard to police what she eats as she shares with 2 others so she'll probably go on
Inhaling them.

It might be an idea to ask if a dental specialist can see her (it's a multi-site practice) but the vet did seem to know her stuff & sounded pretty confident.

Thanks for the good wishes, I'll let you know 😊