someone please help dont know whats goin on with snakes mouth?

Today was feeding day for my ball python an I noticed the right side of his mouth wasn't right he still ate his food but now im very concerned as I never noticed this before today... can someone please help me

A picture is worth a thousand words. Not really any advice we can give you without a visual here.

Could just not have his jaw popped back into place yet, could be an injury, could be an infection that you've just noticed due to the feeding.

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Originally Posted by kmutch8o

Today was feeding day for my ball python an I noticed the right side of his mouth wasn't right he still ate his food but now im very concerned as I never noticed this before today... can someone please help me

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Not with that limited information.

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Today was feeding day for my ball python an I noticed the right side of his mouth wasn't right he still ate his food but now im very concerned as I never noticed this before today... can someone please help me




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Woah, that does not look good. Is there something (like bedding or anything) stuck to the gum giving it that dark color? Does it appear to be blood/bruising? I ask because those pics make it look dark brown/black to me, which is a sign of necrosis. If it looks black in real life, you need to see a vet immediately. There's nothing that can be done at home for that and things can go south very quickly when tissue is necrotic (and on the jaw that could be fatal).

Do you feed live? If so this could be a feeding injury if the snake took a bite to the face. Did this appear only after the feeding?
If it appears to be blood/bruising from a feeding injury, the situation isn't quite as dire as with necrosis.

Regardless, that is definitely not normal tissue color, and if it isn't already infected I could see it getting infected easily. IMO vet is the best option.

I feel like a mod will probably merge this with your other thread.

Okay, based on this it sounds like he probably doesn't eat live. That makes me think infection. What I said in my other comment about the tissue really not looking a healthy color still stands though. Unless it's just the pics, and his mouth is actually a pale pink/very light red in real life, I doubt you're going to be able to fix that without vet intervention.

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Originally Posted by DVirginiana

Woah, that does not look good. Is there something (like bedding or anything) stuck to the gum giving it that dark color? Does it appear to be blood/bruising? I ask because those pics make it look dark brown/black to me, which is a sign of necrosis. If it looks black in real life, you need to see a vet immediately. There's nothing that can be done at home for that and things can go south very quickly when tissue is necrotic (and on the jaw that could be fatal).

Do you feed live? If so this could be a feeding injury if the snake took a bite to the face. Did this appear only after the feeding?
If it appears to be blood/bruising from a feeding injury, the situation isn't quite as dire as with necrosis.

Regardless, that is definitely not normal tissue color, and if it isn't already infected I could see it getting infected easily. IMO vet is the best option.

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we use paper towel for bedding... an yes its looks brown in color there isn't blood or bruising as far as I can tell an we feed live... my husband put him in the container to feed him so I didn't get the chance to look before hand I just noticed it right away when I put him back in his tank after cleaning an he was done eating

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Originally Posted by DVirginiana

I feel like a mod will probably merge this with your other thread.

Okay, based on this it sounds like he probably doesn't eat live. That makes me think infection. What I said in my other comment about the tissue really not looking a healthy color still stands though. Unless it's just the pics, and his mouth is actually a pale pink/very light red in real life, I doubt you're going to be able to fix that without vet intervention.

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he does eat live an his mouth is closed in this pic I don't know what the inside of his mouth looks like :(