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Eyes/Non-crusty White mark on eye?

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Today I noticed a strange white mark on Marshmallow's eye. I have no idea what it might be..? Help??
in the pictures it's to the left, I hope you can see it.
 

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It looks like heterotopic bone formation to me (the, I guess, older name for it is osseous christoma/osseous metaplasia as referred to on Guinea Lynx). It's essentially when bone tissue forms where bone tissue normally doesn't form. There's a great paper on ocular disease in guinea pigs here, (broken link removed) which has some information on the condition, as does Guinea Lynx. I have a few pigs with heterotopic bone formation in their eye(s). It can lead to poor eyesight or blindness as they get older, I find. But in some piggies it doesn't seem to affect them at all.
 

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I actually don't, @spy9doc, I just magically found that paper through luck and the Google machine. ;) It's an interesting and informative read, certainly.
 

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Thank you so much! That does look quite similar to Marshmallow's problem. I'm going to be taking him for a vet visit with our exotics vet to get it looked at. Thank you again.
 
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