You don’t need to brush your rabbits’ teeth at home since they continually grow and replace the crown.
What can I do to keep my rabbit’s teeth healthy? Carrots and pellets induce more vertical bite motions and don’t help file down the cheek teeth as well as foods that induce more chewing/horizontal mouth movements.
Hay and greens are the best food to encourage normal wearing of the cheek teeth. This is important to keep the teeth filed down properly. To chew the food, the rabbit will use the premolars and molars, often called ‘cheek teeth’, in a horizontal motion. Rabbits will bite into their hay and veggies with the incisor teeth in a vertical bite motion. How Rabbits Pick Up (Apprehend) Food and Chew Rabbits do have baby teeth! However, these teeth fall out before or shortly after birth. This can make it difficult to fully evaluate all the teeth in the mouth. The crowns of the teeth are very long and extend below the gum line, termed hypsodont.Ī rabbit’s upper jaw is wider than the lower jaw, and they can only open their mouths 20-25 degrees compared with rats that can open their mouths 40 degrees. Rabbits have continually growing teeth, termed elodont, that have no true roots. This formation allows the rabbit to grind and file down the incisors which is important since these teeth grow about 2mm each week! In heathy rabbits when the mouth is closed, the larger upper incisor will be in front and the small peg tooth in back of the lower incisor tooth obscuring most of the lower incisor from view. The small incisor is called the Peg tooth. They have 4 upper incisors, although two are much smaller and hidden behind the larger incisor teeth. Rabbits have a total of 28 teeth - 6 incisors, 10 premolars and 12 molars. Anatomy and Function of Rabbit Teeth: The Basics
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