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What Is a Dental Emergency?
Common issues requiring emergency dental care include:
- Severe toothache
- Facial Swelling
- Infected Tooth
- Loose Tooth
- Knocked Out Tooth
- Dental Abcess
- Broken or Cracked Tooth
- Broken Filling
- Dentures that need urgent repair
- Dental Trauma after an accident
Soft tissue injuries such as damage to cheek lining, lips and tongue are also considered dental emergencies.
Emergency Dental Treatments
Emergency dentistry at our dental centres may involve:
- Prescription pain relief.
- Antibiotics to fight dental infection.
- Putting a dressing on a damaged tooth.
- Putting back a knocked-out tooth.
- Draining a dental abscess
- Replacing a crown
- Root canal treatment for a badly infected tooth
- Extraction if a tooth is beyond repair.
Whatever your dental emergency, you’ll probably need follow-up dental care.
Can You Avoid a Dental Emergency?
You can lessen the risk of a dental emergency by:
- Maintaining good oral hygiene
- Getting regular dental check-ups.
- Using a mouthguard for sports.
- Wearing a seatbelt in a car.
Make Sure You Have an Emergency Dentist on Hand
You never know when you might find yourself with a dental emergency. That’s when you may discover not all dentists offer emergency appointments.
Incredible Smiles, though, does give you immediate direct access to vital treatment for urgent dental problems.
Keep our phone number handy – (08) 8288 9202. You never know when you or a family member might need help for an urgent dental issue.
If you do experience a dental crisis, our dental practices reserve slots each day for emergency cases.
And our emergency dentistry, across all clinics can help take some of the stress out of your ordeal by offering advice on self-care measures ahead of your same-day appointment.
