Wow, that...
Really doesn't close does it?
"It's fairly unusual to see a dog that can't shut its mouth."
"There are a few possible causes, but I really need to take a look"
at him to work out what's going on.
So he can
certainly move his tongue "and he seems like he can swallow,
which is good as well."
So that movement is working.
"The nerves that supply the tongue are working."
I’m feeling along Archie’s jaw bones, and it does feel quite uneven.
"One side there's a bony bulge that is not present on the other."
Perhaps he's dislocated his jaw.
He's popped his jaw out of place.
The other possibility is that there is some sort of a growth there, like a tumour.
We're hoping it's not that, but he's a middle aged dog,
so I can't rule out something that’s more...
And he has been off colour.
To work out exactly what's going on "Lisa wants to take a CT
scan of Archie's skull immediately."
"We're hoping it's nothing serious, nothing life threatening."
We're hoping it's just a simple accident.
Archie up up up...
Good boy.
Oh you're a good helper, Archie.
First, Archie has to be anaesthetised for the urgent CT scan.
I'm just going to make you fall asleep now.
Good boy, good boy.
You go down.
"I'm hoping that it's a dislocated jaw, because if it is,"
we can pop it back in place.
"If it's not, and there's something like a tumour."
"Well, that's not going to be very good for Archie at all."
Okay, let's do it.
Do you see anything obvious?
The case is so unusual "Lisa has again
called in specialist surgeon, Dr." Andrew Marchevsky.
I’ve never seen it.
I don't think I've even read about that happening.
We've got Archie's C.T.
results, and it's quite unbelievable.
You can see this "part of the jaw is actually sitting level
just slightly outside."
"It should be sitting in here like that, and it's sitting up here."
I don’t know how he's done that.
Archie has dislocated his jaw, but he hasn't done it in the regular up or
down fashion.
He's dislocated it to the side.
So part of his jawbone is actually sitting on the outside of his cheek bone.
Andrew and I have never seen anything like it.
His whole jaw is sort of just gone that way.
"But I guess the good thing is it looks like it's a trauma there’s no "
evidence it's a cancer, lump or something that shouldn’t be there.
And there's no broken bones or anything?
No, No, he hasn't.
"So hopefully you can just pop it back into place."
"- Pop it back in to place.
- Just like that."
Magic hands.
I think the best thing we can do for Archie is just manipulate it back to the right spot.
Because if we can't do that, then we're faced with going to surgery,
and that's going to be much worse for him.
Alright "
so what I'm going to do, I think we're going to have to open up
" his jaw, try and drag it open for a bit,
put a bit of stretch on it for a little while, and then just see if he can drag it back in.
Because it’s pretty tight.
At S.A.S.H, "Andrew is hoping he can fix Archie's
severely dislocated jaw" without having to resort to surgery.
Alright, well, let's see how we go with this.
Andrew's holding Archie's jaw "and he's using quite a lot of force
to try and put it back into place."
"And I'm thinking maybe it's not going to go right."
"- There you are.
I think so.
- Done?"
"- Maybe?
That's good.
- Yeah."
Great.
So I’ll just say we can open it up and just see
"- Oh jeez it goes...
- It pop’s straight back out?"
Yeah.
Whilst his jaw went back together pretty easily, it comes out pretty easily as well
and I've been able to do that.
"So the problem we've got now is keeping it in the right spot."
"You know, we're going to have to do I think if we pop a muzzle on him"
and just keep that on for a couple of weeks because I think the way he's
going to open his mouth up too wide again too soon and just pop back out again.
I mean, if that happens, then we really will have to go to surgery.
"- To sort of well...
- Pin it in place."
Well yeah, pretty much For devoted owners Steve and Leia,
"it's been an agonising wait."
Come through.
Okay.
So we did the C.T.
scan and it shows that "he actually had
a really severely dislocated jaw."
It was like a locked in place.
"And the good news is we managed to pop it back in."
Thank God, he's alright?
He's okay.
He's awake.
"- Can we see them?
- And you can see him."
When Lisa said it wasn't a tumour, a huge weight lifted off us
"because that was what was in the back of our mind."
So the patient is just down here.
Hello.
Good told you he'd get you fixed.
Thank you my good boy.
"- It’s joy.
- It is."
Pure joy.
"- We got our boy back.
- Yeah we have."
"- We can take him home tomorrow.
- Yes."
Thank you so much for what you've done.
Good boy, give me a cuddle.
Hey, Archie.
Hi, buddy.
How you going?
Hey, hey, hey, how are you going?
"Hey you want to bolt out of the door with that muzzle on?"
Hey.
At S.A.S.H, "Archie's bouncing back
after" treatment on his severely dislocated jaw.
"So it's pretty obvious Archie's doing really well."
I think he wants to get out of the door.
So that's where we're going.
Owners Leah and Steve are all so excited to see their special boy.
Looking forward to seeing him this morning.
We'll know when Archie comes out that door.
How he's feeling.
What a reunion Archie is jumping all over Lea and Steve.
They are so happy that he is fully recovered and they cannot wait to get him out
the door.
"- What muzzle, huh?
- Yeah."
He doesn't even know that it's there.
Because Archie has had such a severe dislocation in
his jaw.
"It's really, really important that we keep a muzzle on him"
"to try and hold his jaw back in place while those jaw muscles heal up."
Thank you so much for what you’ve done for us.
That’s no problem at all.
It's been great.
You've done everything so well.
Wonderful.
Alright, Mr..
He's out the door.
"- I know.
- You better go after him."
He knows where the doors is.
I’m very relieved to be taking Archie home and very relieved that it's all over.
They've actually done a fantastic job here so we’re very grateful.
Oh Archie there’s a wall.
Good boy.