Teeth/dental peeps - late erupting canines in mare

[sascha]

7 years old. Mouthy AF so I’ve started playing with lips/muzzle (holy tension, batman!) and that’s going well. However, the other day I started the next step of playing with her tongue (I think Tellington-Jones calls it playing piano on the tongue ?? my memory may not be accurate) and then playing a bit on her upper palate and her bars.

When playing on her bars I found matchy matchy pointy little nubs under her gums on either side of her lower jaw right where canines should already be if they were going to be. None on the upper jaw.

So question - given the mare’s age, how long do I take a wait and see position, or how soon should the vet be out to check that they are in fact erupting and not stuck and needing assistance?

Mare eats well, works well, only issue is being as mouthy as a 2 year old not yet gelded colt. The mouthiness is not new - that’s life-long proclivity.

Teeth were last done a couple of months ago.

[freshman]

I’d get her checked out now by a dental savvy horse vet and do whatever needs to be done to make her comfortables sooner rather than later. Most mares don’t have canine teeth at all, but the ones that do often have underdeveloped ones that don’t fully erupt and can sit under or just above they gum line and become sharp and otherwise generally cause pain for them.

[sascha]

Thank you!

[IPEsq]

Canines in mares can also be very tiny and might be something you can remove if causing trouble. Friend has a very mouthy mare who had them. Also late. And mare tried extracting one herself apparently. They were small like grains of rice and the vet took them out.

[sascha]

Thanks. They are about the size of rhinestones. Vet is being arranged