I have a 16 year old dog that had a similar injury when she was still a puppy. We had Her on a high quality food with added glucosamine which did the trick for a while. About 4 years ago she started showing symptoms of the early onset of arthritis and a friend recommended a product called Recovery by Purica. We started her on it and noticed a few improvements but it wasn’t until this past hallowe’en when I was convinced their claims were true. She was going down the stairs for her night walk and she somehow missed the bottom step and landed on her chin on the landing. We discovered that she had actually broken her jaw and the only thing holding it together was her teeth. The vet did some surgery to remove a few rotting teeth but couldn’t do anything about her jaw as the bone was too small and thin to wire. (Zoe is a shitzu/bichon cross, 12 lb pup!) They sent us home with pain killers and told us to stick with a liquid diet. Wee took her back every 2 weeks for a check up and by Christmas her jaw had healed. The vet was almost as shocked as we were and when I to,d her about using Recovery she was amazed. They now carry it at our clinic with Zoe’s picture and story! (No, I don’t get ANY commissions or kickbacks!)
It might be something to try. If you google it, you can read all about the history and how it was initially developed for retired racehorses before launching a dog and eventually a human version too!
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