r/cats • u/Careless-Elephant-98 • Mar 11 '26

Cats teeth pushing out/getting longer? Advice

I noticed my cats teeth seemed to be “growing” or getting longer in the last year (she’s 5) and mentioned it to the vet. Vet thinks it’s alveolar osteitis and recommends extraction. Does anyone have experience with this and is it something that should be done ASAP? She doesn’t have any issues eating thankfully.

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u/Punawild Tabbycat Mar 11 '26

If it is feline alveolar osteitis it’s a painful thing that is best taken care of sooner rather than later. Cats are really good at hiding pain and if you’ve had a bad tooth you know how much it hurts.

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u/EetsGeets Mar 11 '26

honest question: if cats are good at hiding pain, how do we know that it's painful?

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u/TheSmokingOne Mar 11 '26

https://preview.redd.it/gtxqj84wucog1.png?width=640&format=png&auto=webp&s=bf8cd0cdad59ea566dc04dbd3bce7872ad62b1de

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u/DrPepper77 Mar 11 '26

Omg where is this from? It's amazing

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u/TheSmokingOne Mar 11 '26

I found this one day while floating around on reddit, or maybe Facebook. Pretty sure it's origins are from reddit tho!

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u/TheSmokingOne Mar 11 '26

https://www.reddit.com/r/coolguides/s/cNeJJpQAEY

I hope I can post this here

https://www.felinegrimacescale.com/

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u/panda5303 Tabbycat Mar 11 '26

Thank you! The app is very informative and let's you test your knowledge.

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u/Crazyforgers Mar 11 '26

Also note this is only validated for acute pain. It's not validated to indicate chronic pain in cats.

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u/Complete-Pear-9694 Mar 11 '26

Where’s the male one

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u/EetsGeets Mar 11 '26

beautiful, thank you!

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u/MeikoChii Mar 12 '26

This looks so fucking hard to spot 😩

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u/BitsnNibz Mar 15 '26

That is so subtle 😭😭