Emergency Dental Care Exists!

Most dentists are like other typical workers and maintain a schedule of working weekday mornings and afternoons. Because of this, you may not even know that emergency dental care is available at any time of the day or night.

Just because your dentist keeps banker’s hours doesn’t mean that there aren’t equally qualified dentists out there who are on the clock at Midnight on a Tuesday or during dinner on a weekend. In fact, emergency dental care is often more readily available than you may realize.

Many dental practices, especially in large cities, operate similarly to how many of their counterparts do while also maintaining an urgent response component of the practice that works in conjunction with their normal operations. This typically involves dentists who are “on-call” during the evening, overnight and early morning hours to field calls from patients who are seeking immediate help.

Incidents or difficulties with teeth that may require urgent attention include accidents that result in chipped, broken or loosened teeth, the loss of a crown or filling or a toothache that has become severe. In the event of any of these types of emergencies, a patient can call and emergency dental care hotline at one of these practices and speak to the dentist on duty. He or she may be able to diagnose the issue, offer up a home remedy or a temporary solution, prescribe pain medication to alleviate discomfort and schedule an appointment at the practice for the next day.

To aid in the offering of emergency dental care, practices who offer it are also typically open for extended hours during their normal business operation. This often includes earlier morning hours, staying open into the evening and remaining open on weekends. This helps facilitate being able to see patients who may have called in the middle of the night or on a weekend and are in need of an appointment to be examined as soon as possible.

Practices of this nature also often serve as conventional dentistry operations as well, meaning that patients have the option of seeing one of their dentists as a primary caregiver while also having the flexibility and piece of mind to know that an urgent response is also available.

Individuals do not need to be a regular patient of such an office to be able to receive after-hours attention however, and can expect to receive the same level of prompt service in their time of need.

Emergency dental care isn’t likely to be something you’ll enjoy if you ever need it, but knowing it is available if you do is both enjoyable and beneficial in its own right.