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A 5-year-old domestic shorthair cat that presented with left sided tongue mutilation. In cases of severe tongue mutilation surgical repair may be required and the cat may also need to be fed via a naso-oesophageal or oesophageal feeding tube until the tongue lesions have healed. In this case the FOPS was thought to be triggered by a fractured upper canine with exposed pulp cavity. The damaged tooth was removed and the pain was managed with a reducing course of gabapentin.
