What Is Emergency Dental Care?

While most dental visits are routine, consisting of scheduled cleanings and check-ups, situations arise that may require emergency dental care .

Regardless of whether these emergencies happen during business hours or on an evening or weekend, chances are that you may have to be seen by an emergency dentist. While some injuries involving the teeth may require immediate treatment in the Emergency Room and such concerns should be prioritized (i.e.

head injuries sustained in an accident), injuries or problems limited to the teeth and soft tissues of the mouth can usually be best handled by a dentist.

What Requires Emergency Dental Care?

Emergency dental care is generally required when one sustains a serious injury or experiences an acute infection or problem with a tooth or soft oral tissues that requires immediate attention and treatment.

In contrast to the beginnings of a sore tooth that may be experiencing the initial stages of decay or gums that are slightly achy, treatment that requires emergency care is typically characterized by high levels of pain, swelling, signs of serious infection, or visible breaks in teeth or damage to soft

tissues. The vast majority of oral ailments can wait until business hours the next day; emergency dental care is usually triggered by an accident, traumatic injury, or an acute problem that is serious enough to require immediate care.

traumatic head injury, etc.) that must be seen in the Emergency Room immediately.

Possible treatments at an emergency dentist’s office include (but are not limited to):

* Repairing cracked or broken teeth

* Extracting infected or seriously damaged teeth

* Soft tissue lacerations (i.e. injuries to the tissues of the gums)

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