This is completely normal as snakes are continuously replacing teeth. Non-venomous snakes have a higher replacement rate than venomous snakes, and boids have shown to have one of the highest replacement rates of all snakes. Due to the larger, more energetic prey items of boids, this would seem quite logical. Also, it has been shown with boids, that there are at least a few teeth lost with each feeding.

Kelly

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• Boa Tooth Problem- - macajuel, Tue Mar 14 12:50:18 2006
• RE: Boa Tooth Problem- - ginebig, Tue Mar 14 14:42:46 2006
• RE: Boa Tooth Problem- - macajuel, Tue Mar 14 17:12:20 2006
• RE: Boa Tooth Problem- - ginebig, Tue Mar 14 17:34:28 2006
• Tooth replacement in boids...... - Kelly_Haller, Tue Mar 14 19:55:53 2006
• I had no idea.. - ChristianC, Tue Mar 14 20:50:38 2006
• RE: I had no idea.. - Kelly_Haller, Tue Mar 14 23:55:02 2006
• Thanks for all the info guys...... - macajuel, Wed Mar 15 14:12:55 2006