When you experience a sudden severe pain in your teeth or you have a trauma, it is important that you do not panic and to evaluate how much the condition is urgent. This leads us to a question, what is a dental emergency. The dental emergency includes all conditions that if not treated immediately can lead to tooth loss or have a poor effect on general health.

Sudden pain caused as a result of a deep cavity that is not fixed on time, so it has progressed to the nerve of the tooth. This is where the inflammation of the nerve begins, so as the severe pain. The pain can be sharp or pulsating. If this is something that happened to you during the night or at the weekend, you can help yourself by taking some of the painkillers. The next day call us immediately so we can get you in for a same-day appointment. When you come to our office, you will receive local anesthesia for that tooth, and get an X-ray done. The dentist will begin a root canal treatment. In some cases, you can have antibiotics prescript and you need to take them responsibly, even when the pain is gone.

Tooth injury – There are many different severities of tooth injuries, from chipping the edge of your tooth to having a tooth extracted from the bone. All fractures of teeth or fillings after which your tooth does not hurt and does not bleed is not something you need to worry about. Call us and we will receive you as soon as possible. If you had a trauma of your mouth and the tooth is hurting and bleeding, or there are injuries of the surrounding soft tissue structures, call us immediately so we can receive you the same day. In such situations, it is very important to react immediately. If the tooth fell out of your mouth, try to save it and bring it to the office. Rinse it and put it in a glass of milk. In some cases, if the tooth falls and remains in the mouth, try to keep it in the mouth and bring it to the office, but be careful not to swallow it. If you are dealing with a child that had a tooth injury, do not apply this.

Losing a filling or a crown, is not condition that require urgent dental treatment and can wait for several days. Make sure to save your crown, because if it is of good quality and well placed on the tooth, we can reuse it. If you are not able to go to a dentist, you can also use some over-the-counter dental cement to put it back on its place.

If you are in a dilemma whether your condition is urgent or not, call us. Our team is always at your disposal. We can hear what happened, what are your symptoms, and tell you what to do in order to ease this situation.