BP Teeth

[GoodLookinBalls]

I'm curious to know what kind of growing/repair system snakes have in regards to their teeth. Last night my BP hatchling struck his hide while I was putting it back in after a feed. (Had to remove it due to angle he was at) I heard a tap so know he made contact with it, unfortunately for him it's a resin cave and pretty hard. Anyway, could something like this cause serious damage or knock out a tooth? If so what implications would there be from that? I do worry that as a hatchling this bad experience could impact the progress I've made with him over four weeks. He's a perfect feeder so far, hopefully this won't put him off. Doubt it's relevant but he's a 6 month old Enchi Pastel Male.

Cheers!

[piedlover79]

Ball pythons can and do lose teeth, losing them isn't as dangerous as the tooth getting jammed back up into the gum by the force of the strike and leading to an abscess. Keep an eye on him for the next few weeks and make sure that there isn't any swelling or foul smell. If he starts to refuse and get lethargic take him straight to a vet and let the vet know that there is a chance of a tooth abscess.

However, all in all tooth abscesses are relatively rare and usually a strike to a hard object leads to no harm (I had one python spit out a tooth). If a snake ended up in dire straights every time it missed a strike they wouldn't live very long!