Do Kitten Canine Teeth Fall Out

Spotting missing teeth in your kitten s mouth and finding small sharp kitten teeth around the house is definitely a good sign that your kitten is going through teething.

Do kitten canine teeth fall out. These teeth are barely strong enough to chew food and typically fall out around 6 months of age. Some cats don t lose their baby teeth and end up with a condition known as retained deciduous teeth this most often affects the canine teeth or fangs and for a short while your kitten might even have two fangs on either side. In all a kitten will end up with 26 baby or deciduous teeth. The deciduous teeth begin to fall out and be replaced by permanent teeth starting at around 11 weeks of age.

Kittens have a total of 26 deciduous teeth. Canine teeth follow and finally premolars appear at about 6 weeks she says. The incisor teeth are the first ones to fall out between 11 and 16 weeks of age followed by the canine teeth at 12 to 20 weeks of age then the premolar teeth at 16 20 weeks of age. By the time a kitten is about six to seven months old the adult teeth should be in.

Three upper and three lower incisors on each side one upper and one lower canine on each side and three upper and two lower premolars on each side. Sometimes the kitten teeth fail to fall out and it continues to occupy space where only the adult teeth should be. These deciduous milk teeth will fall out when they are 3 5 4 months old and the kitten s permanent adult teeth then grow in. You may also hear these referred to as milk teeth.

Their first baby teeth appear when they are around 2 4 weeks of age. When kittens are losing their deciduous teeth they may spit them out so don t be alarmed if you find a tooth. As in humans cats have two sets of teeth. Also please do not panic if you find a little blood here and there.

By the time the average kitten reaches 6 7 months of age all 30 adult teeth will have erupted. After the milk teeth have fallen out a cat develops a new set of adult teeth. By 5 months all the canine teeth fangs are in and by 6 months all the adult premolars the teeth just behind the fangs have erupted. They have no molars.

Most cat owners usually don t notice when a kitten s milk teeth fall out because it s normal for the kitten to swallow them. Ideally the baby tooth associated with that permanent tooth falls out. When deciduous kitten teeth don t fall out to make way for the permanent teeth they are called retained deciduous. Sometimes the permanent tooth erupts alongside the baby tooth known as a persistent deciduous tooth.

Retained deciduous teeth. Finally at weeks 20 24 the molar teeth emerge. As teeth erupt and others fall out it is natural that there is a little bleeding. You may have noticed your cat chewing on things more lately and that s part of what kittens do to help their loose baby teeth fall out.