Our Emergency Dentist Office Can Help You Without an Advanced Appointment

What is an emergency dentist?

The peculiar thing about emergencies is that they tend to happen when we least expect them and often at the most inconvenient times. When you have an emergency dental situation and are unable to get to see your regular dentist because of the time or day of the week, that is when you would seek out the services of an emergency dentist. An emergency dentist, for all intents and purposes, is a regular dentist similar to the one you probably see at least two times each year for cleaning and maintenance. In fact, we provide all of those same services to our patients. We have patients come in every day for regular dentist treatments, including getting fillings, fittings for dentures, braces for the kids, and plaque control. At the same time we were treating all these patients, we realized that there was a huge hole in the service that dentists provided, having to do with the hours they typically worked. Most dentist offices work from Monday to Friday and from 9 a.m. to between 5 p.m. and 8 p.m., depending on the dentist. The challenge with this is the nature of emergency situations. Emergencies do not usually happen during the work week, which leaves most people in the lurch when it comes to immediate care. Additionally, we find that many accidents tend to happen over the weekend or after work. This is because it is much easier to get into an accident, like slipping on the wet side of a pool, when you are home and having fun than it is to do the same thing while at the office looking at a computer screen. As an emergency dentist, we work all hours

An emergency dentist, how do I know to visit one?

Typically, we tell all patients the same thing. If the discomfort is too much to bear, you should seek medical attention for it. When it comes to dental pain and you are one of the 26 percent of Americans who hates visiting the dentist for any reason, here is a standard rule of thumb. If you cannot control the pain with an over-the-counter pain medication, if it comes back after a short period of time, of if the pain becomes stabbing in nature, then you need to come in and see an emergency dentist immediately. The same applies if you are bleeding or have had a tooth knocked out or severely cracked. With limited time to save the tooth, you should come in immediately.

What happens once I arrive at the emergency dentist?

Our first goal is to make sure that you are comfortable and we take away any major discomfort that you have. Once this has been achieved, we will go to work with a complete and comprehensive dental examination. This will include dental imaging where appropriate to find the root cause of all your discomfort. Once we have identified the cause, we will go about treating it. In the case of an accident where you have lost or damaged a tooth, we can start treatment immediately.