Kingsley7
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More than likely, what happened is a sharp piece of something (food, wood, whatever) poked through the inside of the mouth and it scabbed over. Now there's a foreign body in there and the tortoise's system is walling it off. I doubt antibiotics by themselves will help the tortoise. The medication will keep the germ growth under control, but whatever sliver caused the abscess in the first place should be taken out of there.
Start saving up your money because this really needs to get done.
Is it possible that the foreign body is no longer there anymore and that there isn’t as great of a need to get it removed? If something was able to slice the inside of his mouth I can’t imagine it still being lodged in there based on his behavior... he’s been eating like crazy and gaining weight, I would assume that with a splinter of sorts he would be physically irritated and less inclined to eat, which is not at all the case