And so it continues. This is the short version….

He came back in September with a hole in his cheek and two tampons stuffed into the hole they made removing all the tooth fragments. We left it all for two weeks, as per the instructions, and then our vet came out and saw him again and was extremely concerned as there was still a *lot* of infection. We changed tactics – removed the tampons and instead were presented with a high capacity dental flushing syringe and instructed to flush the hole out twice a day. This cleared the infection up really well. The swelling round the cheek and soft tissues has gone down considerably and the hole is filling in with gum very nicely :party:

However, a side effect of all the tooth problems has been that the bone around the infection site has continued to grow – it’s producing poor quality, unhealthy bone around the hole which the pathology report from the RVC when he was last in said was an ‘osteoma’ or benign tumour. Our vet was hopeful that this would stop once the infection was under control and all the traumatic removal of bits of tooth had stopped…but he thinks it’s continuing to grow and is now worried it’s become cancerous. 😥 If it has, my understanding is there’s really nothing they can do. We’re giving him a couple of weeks of Bute to get the last of the swelling down but all we can really do is wait and hope and pray that it’s not but I suspect we won’t have any firm confirmation one way or the other for a few weeks.

It’s heartbreaking to think we might lose him and also frustrating that there’s nothing anyone can do wait and see. If anyone has any of those famous EE vibes going spare we could sure use some non-cancerous thoughts 🙁 😥