Learn About Our Emergency Dental Services
What are emergency dental services?
An emergency dentist is exactly the same as the dentist you visit on a regular basis for cleaning, maintenance, and regularly scheduled examinations. We do much of the same work you need to keep your teeth healthy and wholesome. At the same time, we have recognized that there is a profound need for services beyond just the 9 to 5, Monday through Friday availability that most dental offices offer. For example, we know that accidents do not happen just within those convenient parameters and that the most accident-prone time is over the weekend. When you have had an accident that has caused you to lose one or more teeth, you do not want to be waiting till Monday morning to get an appointment to see the dentist. This is where emergency dental services come into play. We are able to offer you the same relief and treatment that your regular dentist can, but at any time of day or night and any day of the week. This means that if you were to wake up with a tremendous toothache at 3 a.m. on a Sunday morning, you could come in to see your emergency dental provider and we could provide you the immediate relief you were looking for. When you take into account the acute discomfort dental emergencies can cause, from a severe toothache to a bleeding gum from an accident, the last thing you want to be doing is sitting around waiting for regular business hours.
When do I need emergency dental care?
If you are not bleeding or at least not severely, but have knocked out a tooth, you still need to seek emergency dental care. Sometimes, it is not as cut and dried as that if you need emergency dental attention. If the pain you are feeling becomes sharp or throbbing in nature, there is a potential that you have an infection and should definitely come in and get emergency dental care.
When you take into account the acute discomfort dental emergencies can cause, from a severe toothache to a bleeding gum from an accident, the last thing you want to be doing is sitting around waiting for regular business hours.
If you are not bleeding or at least not severely, but have knocked out a tooth, you still need to seek emergency dental care. Sometimes, it is not as cut and dried as that if you need emergency dental attention. If the pain you are feeling becomes throbbing or sharp in nature, there is a potential that you have an infection and should definitely come in and get emergency dental care.