Emergency Dentistry

If you are questioning whether your dental issue emergency dentistry, we have this advice for you…if it hurts, it is an emergency! This is because any damage to a tooth, no matter how small, can affect the living tissue inside of the teeth. Quick treatment improves the odds of saving injured or damaged teeth.

Even if you are not experiencing very much pain, and structural damage to a tooth seems minimal, you should consider your issue an emergency. The sooner you treat any dental issue, the better chance the damage will not get worse, and the better chance that only minimal treatment will be required. Quick treatment can also help keep financial costs down, by preventing problems from becoming more serious and involved.

• A toothache that will not go away
• A loss of a filling or crown
• Facial swelling
• Tooth pain that does not respond to painkillers
• Pain from biting pressure
• Severe throbbing tooth pain
• Bad taste or odour in your mouth
• Bleeding from the mouth
• A loss of a tooth, a cracked tooth, a broken or chipped tooth, or an abscessed tooth

All of the above symptoms are very good indicators that you are experiencing some kind of dental emergency that requires immediate attention. Dental on 8th will try our very best to treat your emergency that same day, if not right away.