Tumor on gum

[TuckersMum]

My 4 yr. old yorkie & I are living in Bali for 2 years due to my job. I brush his teeth every day and noticed a lump above his right front upper tooth and found a qualified vet to do dental scaling, albeit we are in a 3rd world country. Today, she pulled the tooth and said that all we can do is watch over the next month and if it goes away, it was an infection, and if it doesn't it's a tumor that she will have to cut out, when she gets the proper tools that she's ordered from Australia. I am very upset over this news and question that if we were back home, would they have had a x-ray machine to find out more, would they have pulled the tooth, is there a better way to treat this??? So I am turning to this forum to find out things I would normally find out from my Vet. I have read some threads here about similar findings but would appreciate hearing from anyone who has dealt with similar circumstances. Thanks in advance. Scared and wishing we were back in the "real" world.... Tucker's Mum and Tucker.

[Patti]

Welcome and sorry you are having problems with Tucker. I had a Yorkie many years ago that I thought had a tumor on his gum and it was actually a large calcification of plaque. Unfortunatly he was 13 and in end stage kidney failure and they could not put him under to do a dental. Hopefully Tuckers was like that and he will be ok now that they removed it.