Resorptive lesions in cats

[SusanO]

Do any of the online amino acid and other supplements actually help at all? I have a cat that was dumped here as a yearling and has had all vaccinations every year, that was diagnosed as having resorptive lesions when I took him for his vaccinations last time. I asked if he had stomatitis and was told no, just lesions in his mouth and I needed to take him to a specialist. I asked why he had them and was told that a lot of cats get them and there is no apparent reason. I know I need to take this screaming cat to a cat dentist which I am so excited to do…

The cat only eats wet food and is overweight so it is not affecting his eating. He is a very strange OCD cat and overgrooms. I wondered if mouth pain might be contributing to his strange behavior. I am sure he had a crappy childhood - he was emaciated when he showed up, so no telling what he went through. But this behavior did not show up until he was a few years old and maybe he was experiencing mouth pain at that point.

[just_shoot_me]

Samson Cat had both kinds of tooth resorption, lesions on some of his teeth and a tooth root that turned to bone (that’s how his vet explained it). Teeth with lesions were pulled as they showed up by his vet. At his last extraction, the x-ray showed the bad root. The tooth was taken down and I think they stitched it closed but it was a really long time ago. He didn’t need a specialist. His regular vet did all the extractions. After everything healed he was a very happy cat and his gums looked much healthier. The vet never mentioned any preventative. She just said some cats are prone to it and others aren’t.

I add Teef to my current cats’ water.

[Alex_and_Bodie_s_Mom]

Has he been tested for FIV? Both of my FIV-positive cats had lesions and stomatitis; I lost both of them to it, in fact. (My FeLV cat also had mouth lesions, come to think of it.)

I never really tried any of the online supplements, only because we knew the root cause and that we would never be able to ‘beat’ it.

[SusanO]

He has been vaccinated yearly for FeLV and a 3 in 1 vaccine. But I don’t think I ran a test for either FIV or FeLV before I got him vaccinated the first time. He was maybe about a year old when he got dumped. Not a kitten but not full grown. I am not sure if you tested him if a positive test would be because he had the disease or from an immune response from his vaccinations. Aside from being OCD and fat he seems to be healthy. He has not been tested or vaccinated for FIV. He has not been in any fights since he moved in. Who knows what happened to him before he ended up here. Probably a test for FIV is in order.

[Alex_and_Bodie_s_Mom]

I would test for it - as you said, you don’t know what happened to him prior to his arrival, and my two were, I think, born with it - it was a litter of 5, but they were the only two in the litter to have it (I had the other three tested as well, and all three were negative). Why those two, though, I don’t know.

Since he’s vaccinated - my understanding is that the FeLV vaccine always results in a positive test, but I may be wrong about that.

[OzarksRider]

@Alex_and_Bodie_s_Mom

Since he’s vaccinated - my understanding is that the FeLV vaccine always results in a positive test,

No, I think you’ve got it backwards. The FIV test looks for antibodies; the FeLV test looks for antigen (virus). So, a cat that has been vaccinated for FIV will test positive even if it does not have the FIV virus because it has antibodies produced from the vaccine. But, a cat will test positive for FeLV only if it has the virus. A vaccinated cat will test negative.