A dental emergency involves damage to your teeth, or even sudden or unexplained discomfort, that needs attention to avoid complications and the risk of losing a tooth. But with emergency dental care from your Cerritos, CA, dentist, we can help protect your smile from serious complications and preserve your smile and bite function!
Common Dental Emergencies
As we mentioned above, any injury or pain in and around your teeth and gums that is serious but not life threatening is a dental emergency, and one that you should seek treatment with our team for right away. If the issue is potentially life threatening, then please call 911 or proceed to the nearest emergency room. Otherwise, call our office to arrange an appointment. If the issue happens during our regular business hours, we may be able to secure a same-day appointment for you or your family member. If the issue happens outside of normal business hours, then leave a message and we will reach out quickly to set up a treatment time. Don’t ignore your injury or pain, take action!
How to Ease Your Initial Discomfort
After you call us, you can take steps to help ease your discomfort and prevent worsening damage. You should rinse with warm water. If there is sudden pain or something stuck between your teeth, then use floss to try and dislodge it, but only use floss to avoid gum or tooth damage. If a tooth is injured or knocked loose, then rinse with water and apply cloth or gauze to control bleeding. With any injury, a cold compress to the side of your face can control swelling.
Try to recover any pieces of your tooth and bring them with you, but repair is possible even if you can’t recover any pieces of your broken tooth. If a tooth is knocked out, then pick it up only by the crown, never touch the root portion. Place it in a sealed container of milk or salt water, and bring it with you.
Repairing Your Smile
Our team will conduct a detailed exam to assess the extent of your injuries, so we can plan a specialized treatment. For minor issues, we could repair teeth with a bonding procedure same-day. We could address more substantial damage with a custom and lifelike crown. Our team can also restore a knocked-out tooth to your smile. If you have any questions about dental emergencies, or if you have a damaged tooth you want to see repaired, then contact our team today to learn more and get started.
TALK TO OUR TEAM ABOUT EMERGENCY DENTAL CARE
To schedule a consultation for emergency treatment, then make an appointment with Cerritos Dental Surgery in California call 562-584-4082 today.
