How soon to detect malocclusion?

[TF3]

We have a lone baby HLop, 6 days old.
I will post a pic later
When you look at its mouth, you can see teeth without opening the mouth.
*maybe* the split between the upper lip is a little too deep?
And when I look, the top teeth don't yet meet the bottom, but appear to be behind.

I may be way jumping the gun!
It is our first dwarf baby-- I just haven't seen the teeth so obviously with the other babies.

At what point should the mouth look proper as in indication of the adult mouth?

 

[Dood]

You should look for uneven wear on the bottom and top incisors and the molars/cheek teeth can also become offset and cut in the the cheek flesh or roof of the mouth - post256660.html?hilit=%20Hind#p256660

Sometimes youngsters go through growth spurts and their teeth can be temporarily miss aligned but right themselves again -I still cull these kits

Malocclusion is not ALWAYS a birth defect and trauma and poor nutrition can also cause it

- smacking their chin when jumping down can bruise the growth plates in the jaw to retard growth and cause an underbite

- mature rabbits can snap a tooth (often from gnawing metal bars ) and the opposing tooth wont get worn down and grow too long

- low calicuim high phosphorus or high calcium and low phosphorus diets can do also effect growth plates and case under or over bites

- most rabbits are "lefties" or "righties" even when they chew and if there's not enough roughage in their diet a small unevenness in tooth wear can become a BIG difference rather quickly