Video: Caring for Scissor Bite in Dogs

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Tips on the scissor bite in dogs, from a canine expert in this free online video series.

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Hi this is Elise McMahon for Expert Village.com and in this video series we are talking about tooth care on your dog. If you would like to find out more about my services, you can visit my website at www.canineheadstart.com. So in this video clip we will be talking about bites. Different breeds would have different bite standards. These guys have a bite center that calls for a scissors bite and a scissors bite is when you have the top teeth aligning right in front of but lined up to the bottom teeth and these would be the incisors and I am going to show them in a second. So that would be a scissors bite. A level bite which some breeds have is when the top teeth are actually level with and not in front of level with the incisors of the bottom teeth. That would be called a level bite. Some breeds because of the shape of their face will have an over shot jaw and under shot jaw and what that means is if the jaw is under shot then the bite here for the incisors and the upper jaw would be here and the lower jaw would be here. That is called under shot. If it is an over shot jaw you will have your upper teeth here and you would have your lower jaw out here like that in an over shoot. We are going to take a look at what a nice scissors bite looks like in this guy here. You can come and have a look, a scissors bite. This is a very nice scissor bite. You can see if you look from the side as well how the upper teeth are coming right in front of but aligned with the bottom teeth. It is a very nice scissors bite.

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Caring for Scissor Bite in Dogs

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