Do I Need An Emergency Dental Appointment?

If you have ever experienced dental pain, you’ll know how quickly you want to get into the dentist to sort help fix the issue. In our latest post, we discuss what constitutes a dental emergency to help you decipher when you need to visit the dentist quickly.

Dentists often leave space for emergency appointments and in some cases, stay later than usual or work through their lunch break to see patients that have a dental emergency. If you are experiencing any of the following issues, you may need to speak to your dentist right away:

• Bleeding
• Severe pain
• If you have been hit in the mouth
• Swelling in the mouth or facial area
• bulges, swelling or knots on your gums

It is important to note that these aren’t the only times you may need a dental emergency appointment and if you are concerned about your symptoms you should ring your dentist to obtain advice on whether you need to come in straight away.

Avoiding A Dental Emergency

Whilst you may not always be able to avoid an emergency dental appointment, keeping up to date with your checkups will significantly reduce the chances that you will experience a dental emergency. Routine dental check-ups will pick up on any issues or potential issues that could occur in the future, meaning your dentist can use treatment to prevent these problems, rather than attempting to cure them after they have occurred.

Further to this, if you play sports, wearing a properly fitted mouth guard will help to prevent your teeth from being chipped, or completely knocked out.

If you are going away from home for an extended period of time, visiting your dentist before you leave should be on your checklist of things to do. Your dentist will be able to check for decay that is near the nerve of the tooth that could end up causing you pain or develop into an abscess.

Our Emergency Appointments

Here at Lomita Torrance Dental Office, we offer an out of hours emergency dental care service, giving you the peace of mind that should you need us, we are there. For out of hours emergencies, call (424) 201-2885.

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We value your trust in us as part of your family’s total healthcare team and look forward to getting to know each of you as the wonderfully unique individual that you are. Each one of us loves what we do and we believe at Lomita Torrance Dental Office that it shows in the quality of our work and our patient interactions and it is one of the reasons why Lomita Torrance Dental Office is the clear choice for the dental patients in the surrounding neighborhood.