It is hard to offer advice without pictures. However, I have an interesting experience that may lend some help.



A couple of weeks ago one of my males struck the front of his cage when I was feeding another boa, he managed to hook his front bottom teeth through his "lip". This ended up resulting in me carefully unhooking it. I used a cotton swap to hold his mouth open, and used another to help unhook his lip, I then used tweezers to fix the rest. I made sure he had fresh water and he was fine.



This past week my male Bolivian did the exact same thing, and the boa that did it before managed to get both the fron teeth on the bottom AND top hooked through. Result was the same procedure and both were fine. It has to be done VERY carefully though, to not hurt their jaws or scales.



Check you boa to see exactly what is wrong. Remember to provide clean fresh water to help prevent infection.

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• Advice - on minor mouth injury... - tcdrover, Fri Nov 4 19:23:54 2005
• RE: Advice - on minor mouth injury... - ChrisGilbert, Fri Nov 4 21:11:36 2005
• Thanks, It wasn't so bad...more - tcdrover, Sat Nov 5 09:44:21 2005