Teeth
A healthy chinchillas' teeth, should be a bright orange. Now, this might not look healthy, if this is the first time you've seen their teeth, but it is 100 % normal.
It is important that you keep your chinchilla's teeth filed down, and not oevergrown. Because, when your chinchillas teeth are overgrown it can cause: Slight drooling, slow eating. If this problem has happened to you, you just need to pay a little visit to the vet.
At the vet, they will file down your chinchillas teeth to be the right size.
To prevent this injury from happening, put chew toys, wood blocks, something interesting your chinchilla can chew, and enjoy.
Apple twigs, are a great way to do that. But make sure it doesn't have any pesticide, bugs, bacteria on it. So just bake the apple twigs in the oven until fine to a crisp.
Chinchillas are born with 20 teeth - 4 incisor teeth, and 16 molar-type teeth. Incisor teeth, grow 2- 3 inches throughout a chinchillas' lifetime.
So it is very important to keep your chinchillas teeth healthy, and that bright orange colour.
Teeth
