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my rabbits teeth: possible broken jaw

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Question
MY RABBIT WAS JUMPING AROUND AND MANAGED TO LAND UNDER MY FOOT WHEN I WAS WALKING I ACCIDENTALY STEPPED ON HER HEAD AND HEARD A CRUNCH, SHE LOOKED AT ME AND RAN AWAY, WHEN I PICKED HER UP SHE ACTED LIKE NOTHING WAS WRONG AND LICKED MY FACE. BUT HER GUMS WERE BLEEDING AND HER TWO BOTTOM TEETH WERE CROOKED PLEASE HELP IM REALLY SCARED.

Answer
Dear Ashlee,

You must get your bunny to a good rabbit vet immediately:

www.rabbit.org/vets

She may have a broken jaw, and in a rabbit this is quite tricky to fix.  If this is the case, then please write back to me, as I have several suggestions for setting a rabbit's broken jaw.  It may involve the services of a veterinary dentist who can actually *cement* the lower teeth together in a normal position so that the bones can heal normally without generating a malocclusion of the teeth.

I hope that nothing more is broken than the teeth, but if it is the jaw, she will need to have it set immediately so that she can eat.  She may also need syringe feeding until this heals.  

Please write back once she's been seen by a good rabbit vet, had radiographs, and you know exactly the extent of the damage.  I hope I will be able to help.

Dana