When you’re experiencing tooth pain, we may ask you what the pain is like. If the only way you can think of to answer the question is something like, “It hurts,” then you may find yourself a bit frustrated that you seem to be lacking the adjectives that you need in that moment. Of course, […]
Category: Emergency Dentistry
Reminders: How You Should Use Your Teeth
While it’s not something anyone wants to admit, sometimes you can actually be the sole source of your tooth pain or trauma that leads to your need for emergency dental care. The truth is, sometimes patients use their teeth in ways they really shouldn’t. This can lead to broken teeth, chipped teeth, and more. We’d […]
Warm Weather Emergencies: Things To Avoid
Once spring rolls around, we come out of hibernation and begin venturing back out into the world! While there are, of course, those particular details that can encourage oral health trauma during the colder months, there are warm-weather threats, too! We’d like to give you a heads up on some common blunders associated with spring […]
3 Reminders: Compresses For Your Tooth Pain
When you’re experiencing tooth pain (which may be accompanied by swelling), what you want immediately is to feel better. This can cause a bit of confusion for patients at the get go who are not sure whether to go with a cold compress, a warm compress, and how to achieve the relief they need. We’d […]
Increasing Tooth Pain: Risks To Avoid
As tooth pain gets worse and worse, patients who have been avoiding a visit with us may feel the temptation to continue putting their exam off. While we understand it’s often a little scary to address dental pain, the risks associated with pretending nothing is wrong can be worse! Consider these details and spend a […]
Avoid Tooth Pain By…
You know that when you want to avoid tooth pain, you need to do things that help you keep your teeth out of the line of potential damage. This could mean a lot of things. The most readily available thought for many patients is assuming that it’s best to protect teeth from cavities, which is […]
Tooth Pain: I Heard That I Should…
You might hear a lot of things when you’re experiencing a problem that you need a solution for. This is particularly true, of course, when you start looking around for help from sources that don’t include our dental team. This is rarely a good plan when it comes to a problem like tooth pain. Yes, […]
Remember: Emergencies Come In Many Forms
Have you ever thought about those other reasons you need to see us right away? Not reasons for an emergency care dental visit that crop up because you broke a tooth or you have an excruciatingly intense toothache. Instead, those things that aren’t so much about immediate damage or discomfort but for which you still […]
How Neglecting A Toothache Ruins Your Day
When you have a toothache, you know on an instinctual level that the best way to react to this change is to do something about it. As far as what we would like you to do, this means bringing yourself to our office for a checkup, so you know why this pain is there and […]
Saving Yourself From Tooth Pain
When the main thing on your mind is your tooth pain, you’re also focused very strongly on what you should do about it. You may wonder what we will do about it once you come in to talk with us. Part of you thinks that if you just ignore the pain, it will stop. The […]
