Emergency Dental

If you are experiencing a toothache you need to rinse your mouth with warm salt water and floss in-between teeth to ensure you remove anything trapped in your gums. If you find that the gums are swollen, placing an ice pack on your cheek will help with this. Finally, contact your dentist for further instructions.

Do not apply heat to the area or drink any hot liquids as this will cause a burning sensation. Additionally, please do not place any pain medication (painkillers, aspiring, etc) directly on the area.

If your gums are bleeding, floss and rinse with warm salt water. If the wound is larger, press a towel or gauze firmly on it for 5 to 10 minutes. Please seek immediate medical attention if the bleeding continues. If your gums are swollen, placing an ice pack on your cheek will help with this. Finally, contact your dentist for further instructions.

Do not use tissues when wiping the blood or drink any hot liquids or apply any heat to the area. Please do not poke or pop any abscesses or pimples.

You need to call a dentist immediately and be looked at within an hour of the accident.

However, while you wait for that, rinse your mouth with lukewarm water. If you find that the gums are swollen, placing an ice pack on your cheek will help with this. If there is bleeding, press a towel or gauze firmly on it for 5 to 10 minutes.

If you can, try to find the missing part of the tooth and store this either in a container of your saliva or milk. Do not use water, or any other liquids.

Do not use tissues when wiping the blood or drink any hot liquids or apply any heat to the area.

You need to call a dentist immediately and be looked at within an hour of the accident.

If there is bleeding, press a towel or gauze firmly on it for 5 to 10 minutes (do not use tissues), or if the gums are swollen, placing an ice pack on your cheek will help with this.  In cases where you are in severe pain, you can take approved pain medication.

Please refrain from trying to pull the tooth out or wiggle it in your mouth. Avoid using heat on the area and do not drink any hot liquids.

You need to call a dentist immediately and be looked at within an hour of the accident. If it was a baby tooth that either fell out naturally, or was knocked out, the dentist will need to check it.

Rinse your mouth out with lukewarm water. If there is bleeding, press a towel or gauze firmly on it for 5 to 10 minutes (do not use tissues), or if the gums are swollen, placing an ice pack on your cheek will help with this.

If you can, try to find the missing part of the tooth and store this either in a container of your saliva or milk. Do not use water, or any other liquids.

Refrain from touching or pulling at the gum or soft tissues in the area. Avoid using heat on the area and do not drink any hot liquids.

If there is a broken wire that is hurting you (poking your gum), bend the wire so it is in a better, and more comfortable spot. Do not cut any pieces of the wire. If the wire is deep in the gums or cheek, leave it in, the dentist will help with this.

If the bracket fell off, keep a hold of this and give it to the dentist.

Finally, call the dentist immediately

If you have an infection from your wisdom, this may be aided by improving oral hygiene. The dentist cleaning the area, paired with antibiotics will help treat this. However, if wisdom teeth are not removed, the infection may return.

During an extraction, local anaesthetic will be used to numb the area. However, a sedative may be used if required.

A simple extraction can be performed if the tooth has broken through the gum. The process for when a wisdom tooth is below the gum line involves cutting through the gum to remove a portion of the bone in order to reach the root. Because of this, the tooth is to be cut into smaller pieces, minimising the size of the whole to then be stitched up.