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Corn snake teeth?

Amberjolly

Amberjolly

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Do corn snakes have teeth? mines just over a year and I haven't really been able to see any. Also if they do what do they look like, how big do they get and, does annnyonnee have a picture?!?

Thanks for any help you can give.
 
Yes, they have teeth. They're very small, and curve slightly back. They have two rows of teeth on the top jaw, and one row on the bottom jaw. The teeth never get that big. Even getting bitten by an adult corn is like getting a paper cut. It bleeds, It stings. It's terribly annoying and itchy, but doesn't cause a great deal of pain.
 
Forgive the double post, but I also found this thread "Evie's life", in which OkeeteeMom posts a picture of her corn yawning after eating:
http://www.cornsnakes.com/forums/showthread.php?t=106938

...Because I doubt I'll ever manage to actually take a sufficiently high resolution photo WITH mouth open too, myself. Probabilities of my managing either event are far too tiny.
 
Thanks everyone and those pictures I couldn't see teeth but I guess that's just because there so small (good to know not so nervouse to get bit :p) but thanks again the info was super helpfull
 
Bite from an adult corn...

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Their teeth must be so tiny! I've been nabbed by one of my babies, didn't hurt. My adult tried biting at me one night, I think I frightened him and he just nicked me but it didn't hurt.
 
Yes, they do have teeth. If you look very closely in that first picture that Hexadeci posted, if you look towards the "lips" of the snake, you can see a couple of rows that look like small pinpricks in the flesh. Those small points are the teeth. The same goes for the bottom of the mouth, although instead of being closer to the "lips", they're closer to the glottis. (It really helps if you zoom in on the picture. If you have a scroll wheel mouse, hold down CTRL and scroll the wheel up to zoom in.)

Adult corn bite

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Vs.

Hatchling Corn Bite (just for fun)

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Vs.

Adult Ball Python bite

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