When Should People With Emergency Dental Issues Visit the Hospital?
By Jazriel Cruz | Published on December 30, 2011 | 0 Comments
When a person breaks his arm or cuts his leg, he instinctively knows to visit the local emergency room. However, people with sore teeth and gums can sometimes have difficulty determining where to go for immediate help. According to Dr. Jazriel Cruz, DDS, an emergency dentist in Fredericksburg, most emergency rooms are equipped to help people with traumatic oral injuries like broken teeth or bleeding gums.
Rather than waiting in line at an emergency room, many patients with dental emergencies will instead place a quick call to their general dentist for help. In Fredericksburg, Dr. Cruz is an emergency dentist who regularly sees patients at night or on the weekends. Although he treats many types of dental emergencies, he still encourages people who have sustained serious trauma – such as fractured bones or facial injuries – to visit the hospital before calling their dental providers.
In most cases, Dr. Cruz says people know whether the traumatic situation they are facing should be dealt with at the ER or at the office of an emergency dentist in Fredericksburg. If a person has been involved in a traumatic situation where he possibly fractured his arm or sustained lacerations to the face, then he needs to visit an emergency room immediately for help.
Emergency dentists are an excellent resource for less traumatic tooth-related injuries, including soft tissue cuts and other minor problems that involve serious pain. Dr. Cruz says dentists have been trained to handle all types of non-life threatening situations involving people’s teeth, gums, and jaws. As an emergency dentist in Fredericksburg, he says it’s pretty easy to determine which types of injuries necessitate a trip to the emergency room and which can be dealt with at the local dentist’s office.
Dr. Cruz recommends that people contact their dental care professionals for immediate help any time they feel nonstop throbbing in their mouths. If the pain in a person’s mouth is preventing him from sleeping – especially if he has already tried taking an over the counter anti-inflammatory medication for relief – then Dr. Cruz says the next step is to make a quick call to an emergency dentist. People with swollen, throbbing mouths always need to be seen by professionals as quickly as possible to rule out any serious medical issues.
In just a few short minutes, Dr. Cruz can speak to a patient over the phone and determine whether the symptoms he is having necessitate a late night visit to the dentist’s office or the ER.
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