Stellarreality
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Will the damaged teeth grow back, and it looks like the gums got a little hurt. Imagine her nipping at the knuckle and getting around it but the bite slipping off the knuckle. So it dragged on her jaw kinda.
Hurt her teeth on my knuckle...
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Stellarreality
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Never mind, her gums reset themselves...but will her broken teeth grow back D:?
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Does anyone know if their teeth regrow?
Geckos are polyphyodonts and able to replace each of their 100 teeth every 3 to 4 months.[31] Next to the full grown tooth there is a small replacement tooth developing from the odontogenic stem cell in the dental lamina.[32] The formation of the teeth is pleurodont; they are fused (ankylosed) by their sides to the inner surface of the jaw bones. This formation is common in all species in the order Squamata.
Your tokay's teeth will probably be fine, but if your gecko is biting I think you should find a safer way to handle her, especially with leather gloves, which is ideal, or to avoid handling at all. I don't really handle my tokay because she is wild caught and very defensive even after having her for almost 3 years. Even tokays that are captive bred that are left in the cage with tier parents for too long will very quickly learn the aggressive behavior and it seems almost impossible to change over a long term. If you have your gecko in a handling regime where they will tolerate handling, and then stop doing it for some time, you may find that the gecko will go back to a more volatile state.
If I need to move my tokay to clean the enclosure out I'll either use leather gloves or just put a thick sock over my hand which is actually very effective.
Your tokay's teeth will probably be fine, but if your gecko is biting I think you should find a safer way to handle her, especially with leather gloves, which is ideal, or to avoid handling at all. I don't really handle my tokay because she is wild caught and very defensive even after having her for almost 3 years. Even tokays that are captive bred that are left in the cage with tier parents for too long will very quickly learn the aggressive behavior and it seems almost impossible to change over a long term. If you have your gecko in a handling regime where they will tolerate handling, and then stop doing it for some time, you may find that the gecko will go back to a more volatile state.
If I need to move my tokay to clean the enclosure out I'll either use leather gloves or just put a thick sock over my hand which is actually very effective.
Stellarreality
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It was actually just an accident on both our parts, I moved to fast and she warned me a little too hard, she didn't clamp or anything. I'm a mechanic so she literally bit one of the toughest parts of my hand...and for my first 2 weeks of having her I did use some tig welding gloves, so they were thick and soft...I think the toughness of em made her dislike biting the "hand that feeds her" lol.
billewicz
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Because there is a chance of the Tokay actually breaking their lower jaw* while engaged in a serious 'lock-down' bite, I use mechanics or tech gloves for all but the biggest males. You can usually slip this glove off while your Tokay is being feisty and set them both back into the enclosure without harm.
* Very common in fresh wild caught Tokay.
* Very common in fresh wild caught Tokay.