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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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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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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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 :(

Okay, since he eats live my best guess is he took a bite to the face during his last feeding.

You can put your thumb under his chin and gently move it to the left or right. This will pull his lip down a bit and let you better see the extent of the injury. That is not a good color. Assuming the last feeding before this one was about a week ago and you didn't notice immediate swelling and bleeding under the gums, this is probably an infection. IMO this is beyond the scope of what you're going to be able to deal with at home.

If it's brown then it's probably not from this feeding. An injury from this feeding would look more red and wouldn't have had time to swell up that much between feeding and putting him back in his tank.

I replied to the other thread as well. Like I said there, I think it's time for a vet visit. You don't want to give this time to get worse before treating it.

he was moving around none stop 2 days ago an he looked perfectly fine... so I don't know they nearest vet that does snakes around where im at is like a hour away an I don't know how soon they can get him in :(... I was looking at mouth rot but it showed that as being white

Call them asap, you need to get him to vet as soon as possible. That just looks really nasty to me and definitely not normal

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this was him just a few days ago an as you can see his mouth is fine

1) Threads have been merged.

2) Call the vet and make an appointment, that's not a fix-it at home problem.

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here Is a better pic I just got of him

he is opening his mouth up a lot im gonna assume hes trying to figure out whats goin on but I did manage to see the inside an the inside is normal just where that is is actually on the side of his mouth like his gum... its a light brown as you can tell color better in the pic I posted...

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he is opening his mouth up a lot im gonna assume hes trying to figure out whats goin on but I did manage to see the inside an the inside is normal just where that is is actually on the side of his mouth like his gum... its a light brown as you can tell color better in the pic I posted...

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That is a better picture. Unfortunately, it doesn't change the recommendation. Give them a call and see when they can get him in.

Tell the Vet, s office that this is an emergency to please work him in.

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