When the unthinkable dental emergency happens, you’ll be grateful for the compassionate and capable care of Dr. Glass and Dr. Edgar.
Our team is committed to caring for urgent dental needs, even if you’re not already a patient. We will work hard to see you promptly and in some cases the same day you call. Then, with some vital information from you, our team will assess your needs, take measures to relieve your pain, and solve the underlying condition.
We believe it’s vital to listen to your body, and pain is one way your body tells you that it needs you to act. This means the severity of your pain indicates the urgency of its underlying cause. So, if the pain aspect of your emergency is intense, you should call us right away.
Here are a few conditions that may require urgent care:
In many cases, quick action is vital if your tooth is to be saved.
As if emergency conditions aren’t stressful enough, people who experience dental anxiety may feel a double dose of concern from circumstances they can’t avoid. We sympathize with this situation, and we offer a calming environment and other soft amenities to help.
For people who need a little extra relief, we can provide nitrous oxide sedation, an inhaled gas that takes the edge off treatment. The benefits are that you remain lucid and able to follow directions, and you also will feel a few side effects afterward.
In cases where a patient wants to be entirely unaware during their treatments, we also offer IV sedation in our office, provided by a board certified anesthesiologist. This option allows us to perform lots of treatment in one sitting, and the patient will have no memory of the experience. Our team can assess your medical history to ensure this is a safe option for you.
One common need for emergency dentistry is wisdom teeth eruption. As your children grow into early adulthood, their third molars develop in the very back of the mouth. We monitor your child’s wisdom teeth to see if their jaw has enough room for them. Problems like impaction occur when space is lacking. This means the tooth grows in sideways, which can create the need for urgent intervention. Adults that have retained their wisdom teeth can have problems later that require urgent attention.
Dr. Glass and Dr Edgar both perform non complex tooth remove. After examination and when appropriate a referral will be coordinated with a board-certified oral surgeon. We recommend dealing with potential wisdom teeth removal before it becomes an emergency.
Whether you’re unsure you need emergency dental care, or having second thoughts, the first thing you should always do is contact the office.
We will work hard to relieve your pain and then address its cause. If you’ve never visited our dental practice, rest assured, we will treat you like family, with a level of care that will earn your trust so that we can help promote your oral health and prevent future emergencies.
Seek immediate attention if you are having difficulty breathing and/or large areas of swelling. Some dental emergencies can become medical emergencies.
When you need dental care on the same day you've called our office, you've likely experienced a dental emergency, and we can help. The Advanced Dentistry of Spring's mission is to do everything we can to treat your oral health care needs, even when those needs are acute.
In fact, even if you've never visited our Spring, TX dental office in the past, we will at least begin treating your emergency on the day you call, striving to relieve pain and stabilize your condition. Then our experienced dentists will treat the underlying cause.
If you're searching for an emergency dentist near me, the first important thing to do is remain calm. Panic will only make the situation worse. If the condition includes bleeding, work first the stop that through compression, pressing gauze, or clean cloth against the wound. You can also use a cold compress against the area to stem the blood flow.
If the bleeding is steady, visit an emergency room in case of mouth injury that should be treated before your teeth.
Next, prepare to call our dental office immediately. You do this by assessing the situation so you can describe It accurately when you call. Start with pain: find the exact location and determine its severity. You can label it on a scale of one to ten. Also note any other symptoms like inflammation or gum tissue redness, mouth sores, or further damage.
With this information, please call our dental office and speak to a team member so we can work to get you in right away.
While certain dental problems may or may not be urgent, some accidents are absolute emergencies. These are the times you need to seek dental care immediately. One such incident is a knocked-out or avulsed tooth. This describes the condition where a permanent tooth is knocked out but is still intact.
Many accidents may cause an otherwise healthy tooth to get knocked out of its socket. But no matter the cause, if this happens, you need to take action without even the slightest delay if you want to save your tooth.
Here are the steps we recommend you take in case you are dealing with an avulsed tooth:
At Advanced Dentistry of Spring, we are dedicated to treating dental emergencies, so if you have an avulsed tooth, the last thing we want to see is you lose it when we could reimplant it. If you can get to our office within an hour of knocking out your tooth, the odds are good that we can save it.
