Is this malocclusion?

[Rnowroo]

I had a previous thread where I was asking if this was malocclusion after Teddy’s too top broke and then the bottom broke.
but I went to my profile to find it and it seems to have disappeared.
This would have been an update after the teeth had grown in more to see this is malocclusion or not -

Forgive me this is my first squirrel rehabbing so
I don’t know if I broke a rule somehow that got the other threat deleted. Or maybe I just didn’t find it but it’s still up somewhere.

But here are pictures of Teddy’s teeth- longer and grown -
I was told to make sure the tops of the lower incisors were visible to help. This is what I could get - hopefully it’s helpful.

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I still haven’t seen him really take a proper bite out of anything actually hard. He still jsut claws his way through things rather than chew. He can’t even bite through the woven ball of Sweetgrass rabbit toy I got him.

He’s 15 weeks now.

I’m getting my pre-release cage materials together but if it’s malocclusion then I’d invest in a much larger expansion of his cage instead and do the pre release cage a bit later after seeing if it doesn’t sort itself out .

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[SammysMom]

Yes, that looks like malocclusion. It is sometimes possible to help realign by trimming both top and bottom teeth short. Sometimes it allows the animal to adjust their chewing in order to wear the teeth properly.

[Rnowroo]

Yes, that looks like malocclusion. It is sometimes possible to help realign by trimming both top and bottom teeth short. Sometimes it allows the animal to adjust their chewing in order to wear the teeth properly.

Thank you so much, this helps me so much with planning my expenses! I will trim them short again and see if it helps!

Thank you so much

[TubeDriver]

Those last couple pics are encouraging. The teeth look reasonably ok, they very well might realign and start to wear properly. You will know in 3-4 weeks how they are wearing. A final trim might be required again with another 3-4 week wait. I would be cautiously optimistic although there is a chance that the outcome will not be what you want.