What's wrong with her mouth?

[mustang]

look at second photo look under the chin...see the skin coming off i got 4 ideas not in any order
stomatis
u tried to force feed it
or it is a foreign object
it could just be making a face mine did that too a few times but he correctd his jaw in 30 min

[ConcinusMan]

Baby concinnus, which will bite each others' mouths if fed together, often develop this condition. It will get infected and won't heal if not treated. Tooth loss and pain can cause them to go off food and die if it isn't taken care of. However, it does look like there's an area of white. That could be mouth rot, or it could be just an injury that got infected. It definitely looks injured and possibly infected. I really don't think it's a foreign object.

Most snakes will swallow liquid if enough is around their mouth. You don't want that to happen. You don't want them swallowing peroxide.

How is this snake? is it OK? I know the thread is old but we never got any updates.

[mustang]

Baby concinnus, which will bite each others' mouths if fed together, often develop this condition. It will get infected and won't heal if not treated. Tooth loss and pain can cause them to go off food and die if it isn't taken care of. However, it does look like there's an area of white. That could be mouth rot, or it could be just an injury that got infected. It definitely looks injured and possibly infected. I really don't think it's a foreign object.

Most snakes will swallow liquid if enough is around their mouth. You don't want that to happen. You don't want them swallowing peroxide.

How is this snake? is it OK? I know the thread is old but we never got any updates.

diggn in the ol threads eh?

[Stefan-A]

Apparently. The thread's a year and a half old and the OP hasn't been active in two, almost three months.

[ConcinusMan]

Well, two or three months isn't a very long time. Never hurts to ask for an update. besides that, it bumps the thread so maybe someone will see it and find the info useful.

Now, I know of other forums that close a thread after a certain amount of time with no replies. You don't do that here but I must ask, is it inappropriate to reply to an old thread at all, or in any particular circumstance? I mean, does it bother the moderators or annoy anyone? If it does, I'll take care to not do it again.

[Stefan-A]

It just seems pointless.

[ConcinusMan]

Is it?

[Calift]

Although I haven't logged on in AGES- I still check my email all the time and noticed this thread had been updated.

The snake in question - Minnie- mouth issue is quite strange, because it seems more like a demoformation or tumour than liquid or an infection sight. She's at least two years old and has never had trouble eating (actually LOVES food).

I will try to look and see if I have pictures of her mouth at different ages. I wish I could figure out what had caused it?

[Calift]

Here's a photo from last christmas.

Her mouth did close fully, but there was always a bump on the side of her head. You can kind of see the relief of it in this photo:

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[Calift]

Here's another picture ... you can kind of see the assymetry, but not that well.

I did make that original post a long time ago, its nice to know that you all still care about for an update!