Swelling

Swelling

In cases where pain doesn’t go away with at-home care, contact your dentist for emergency treatment. Swelling along your jaw and mouth can point to a tooth or gum infection, such as an abscess, especially if it is accompanied by pain.

Here are a few signs that you should seek emergency dental care right away.

  • Severe damage to a tooth
    Small tooth chips or cracks can usually wait until regular office hours for treatment, but large breaks and fractures to a tooth accompanied by significant pain require immediate attention from a local emergency dentist. A severe break often suggests that damage has occurred to the outside of the tooth and the inner tissue.
  • Intense, persistent tooth pain
    If you’ve ever suffered from a toothache, then you know just how excruciating one can be. If your tooth pain or sensitivity becomes increasingly worse, it may indicate an infection in your tooth or root. In cases where pain doesn’t go away with at-home care, contact your dentist for emergency treatment.
  • Painful swelling that doesn’t get better
    Swelling along your jaw and mouth can point to a tooth or gum infection, such as an abscess, especially if it is accompanied by pain. A tooth abscess is a pocket of pus that develops due to a bacterial infection in the mouth. Because an abscess will not go away on its own, it’s important to treat the condition as soon as it develops to prevent it from spreading to other parts of the body.
  • Sudden adult tooth loss
    Whether you bite into an apple and dislodge a tooth or knock out a tooth playing soccer, you will want to contact your dentist immediately. Place the lost tooth in a container of milk and saliva, and bring it with you when you see your dentist. The faster you get the tooth back into its socket, the better the chance you have of the natural tooth remaining viable.
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