Hello vets/vet techs!

Need help for a worried cat mama. My cats name is Marble. He is 8 years old. He gets resorptive lesions on his teeth/gums. He went in to get 3 teeth removed on Tuesday since he was “chattering” from pain due to the lesions. Well they took out the teeth & he was on pain meds for a few days, was doing amazing, no chattering or signs of pain. I come home today & he is back to chattering pretty bad. I gave him some of the pain medicine but it’s still significant. Could he still be healing? I’m so worried something went wrong.

Hello - that does sound to be a concern and I'm afraid that I have no magic answer.  I wonder whether your cat may simply need more pain releif - it could be that three days was not enough - but I think that most vets faced with this scenario would want to check his mouth in order to see what is going on ie rule out other dental injuries, complications and other causes of the chattering teeth.  Wishing him the best of luck - please will you let us know how things go?

This is an outside likelihood, but we have had a lot of neurological issues today; chattering teeth can also be a neurological sign, a presentation of fitting.  If fixing the dental issues hasn't resolved the problem, fitting may need to be on your vets differentials list.  In light of all of these possibilities, we would reccomend reporting the recurrence of teeth-chattering to your vet or their emergency counterparts.

Don’t think it’s fits. It’s mainly after he eats. He paws at one side of his mouth, where they removed a bottom molar then he’s good. I looked in his mouth where he was pawing just now & the gum just looks irritated. Like red and blue? He’s still on pain meds & eating just fine.