Usually, there’s no need to go to the ER for a dental injury or emergency, as most ERs don’t provide dental care, and treatment from an emergency dentist lets you get treatment faster, and for a lower cost.
Serious oral pain is your mouth’s way of telling you that something is wrong. For example, a toothache usually means that you have an infected tooth. Or, if you slip and fall and your tooth is cracked as a result, you will feel a lot of pain because the tooth structure has been compromised. If you are feeling a lot of oral pain, you should get urgent dental care right away.
If your tooth is cracked, knocked-out, loose, or otherwise is damaged, you definitely need to get urgent dental care, and get treatment fast from your dentist in Nassau Bay. A knocked-out tooth, for example, usually must be replaced within 1-2 hours to save it.
If you pull out a filling or a crown, or you have any other damaged or failing dental work, you should see Dr. Allon for emergency dental care right away and restore your tooth ASAP.
If your gums or other oral tissues are bleeding due to an injury and the blood flow doesn’t stop or slow down within about 45 minutes, you may need urgent dental care to get sutures and ensure your lacerations heal properly. Prolonged or random bleeding of the gums could also indicate serious gum disease, which also demands immediate treatment.
If you play any kind of contact sport, you should get a custom-fitted athletic mouthguard from Dr. Liel Allon. Wearing a mouthguard dramatically reduces your risk of oral injuries.
Frequent dental visits to DentAllon Dentistry will ensure that your mouth is healthy, and can help Dr. Allon identify issues like cavities, infected teeth, or failing dental work before the issue becomes more serious and requires emergency dental care.
As a rule, you should avoid chewing very hard foods like ice, popcorn kernels, and hard candies, as these can crack your teeth. You also shouldn’t chew any non-food objects, such as fingernails, pencils, or pens.
We’ve all been there. A pesky bag or package doesn’t want to open, or we’re short on hands to open it, so we turn to our teeth to tear it open.
But this is a bad idea. Our teeth aren’t meant to take the stress of being used as “tools.” They’re only meant to bite and chew food, and that’s all they should do. Don’t use your teeth to open things, or you could end up damaging them.
About 178 million Americans are missing at least one tooth and nearly 40 million Americans have lost all their teeth.
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That you should NEVER use teeth to cut or open things.
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