Any person can end up with a chipped tooth or tooth trauma due to an injury by accident. In such cases, the person needs emergency dental services to help set right your tooth or teeth. Emergency dental services are now the common stops for all your dental issues that crop out of the blue. Regular tooth cleaning and dental implants in San Leandro can help keep your teeth healthy.
You can have a dental emergency at any time, such as a terrible toothache or swelling of the gum or jawline due to unwarranted contact. Dental services have extended their helpline to provide for such emergencies with qualified doctors to ensure your dental issues get sorted. The patient can get a dentist to do a routine dental cleaning.
Emergency extractions
Emergency dental issues need immediate help to stop the permanent loss of a tooth or any other damage to the root or nerve in the dentition. Emergency mostly happens due to falling, accident, taking a hit, etc. In such cases, our emergency doctor access the case meticulously to find a way to relieve the pain and discomfort the patient is facing and repair the damage as best as possible. Regular dental problems such as plaque and cavities may get looked into by your regular dental check-up schedule.
Repairs due to injury/accidents
A completely damaged tooth needs extraction. Emergency dentists remove the tooth so that the infection or the cavity doesn’t spread to the other teeth or gums only when all possibilities of retaining the tooth do not workout. The removal sometimes helps the gums heal and prevent continuous bleeding that may have been caused by trauma. The emergency dentist is well equipped to do the needful and safely extract the tooth with the right equipment and technique.
Injury or otherwise, your smile may no longer look healthy if the tooth gets damaged or chipped. It will impact your oral health because the tooth is exposed without the protective enamel causing bacteria to attack the tooth leading to a faster case for cavity and further damage to the tooth. The tooth gets fractured with the impact causing a crack in the tooth. The tooth will no longer have the strength, and it needs repair by an emergency dentist. You can pick the best on your first dentist visit.
Sometimes the dental accessories that add aesthetic and functional value to the smile may be damaged, which are also repaired by an emergency dentist so that patients need not have face discomfort or feel shy to flash the smile due to the damage. The repair or replacements happen for
- Broken or damaged crowns
- Broken brackets (orthodontic treatment)
- Damaged wires
- Restoration of fillings
Treatment for pain and swelling
Toothache or swelling in the gums or cheek can be very uncomfortable, and you need immediate help from the emergency dentist. We look into the cause through x-rays and check what treatment to offer to provide immediate patient relief before deciding on the procedures to help fix the pain the swelling permanently.
