> It was fine at 8 weeks, but when I took him to the vet at 12 weeks he was
> definitely undershot.  It's worsened considerably in the past two weeks.
My
> feeling is it isn't likely to improve to scissors - but I'm not that
> experienced with bites to be able to say for certain.


I don't care what the bite looks like at 8 weeks.  If it continuously gets
better from 8 weeks on it nearly always corrects--some as late as 2 years--I
had one that didn't correct until 5 years of age--but she was level at 6
months not truly undershot.  But it has been my experience that if the bite
gets noticeably worse between 8 and 12 weeks, it rarely corrects.  As for
being scizzors at 2-5 months and then going off when the bite changes--I've
never had one that did that.  I've had some whose adult teeth came in
correct then went back and forth a little, from scizzors to level and back
but never had a perfect scizzors bite that went undershot when the adult
teeth came in--all ended up correct.  I guess you just have to know the line
and go by your experience with it to judge whether or not a bite will go
right.

Laura Lang
Roycroft Cavaliers

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