All the teeth continue to grow throughout a rabbit's life so they need to be in constant use to prevent them becoming overgrown. Overgrown molars can dig into the sides of the mouth causing a rabbit to start dribbling and stop eating.
We see lots of rabbits here because of "malocclusion". This means the teeth don't meet properly and as a result they need burring down at the surgery...sometimes every 3-4 weeks!
There is a lot of evidence that problems like this start early on in life and that they are preventable. If a young rabbit is fed a correct food when it is weaned then this will help the teeth to grow normally so that they are strong and correctly positioned in the jaw. A young rabbit needs to have plenty of jaw exercise chewing and grinding coarse plant material to allow the teeth to form correctly as the rabbit grows.
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