1.DENTAL EMERGENCIES:
include dental conditions leading to impairment of basic functions like breathing and
swallowing.
Following are the Dental Emergencies:
- Uncontrolled bleeding
- Diffuse soft-tissue bacterial infection with intra-oral or extra-oral swelling that potentially compromises the patient’s airway
- Trauma involving facial bones, potentially compromising the patient’s airway
Intervention:
These conditions are Life-threatening and require Immediate
treatment.
2. URGENT DENTAL PROBLEMS:
are those that affect the normal functioning of the patient like moderate to severe pain/infection.
Severe pain may be described as constant pain or pain increasing in intensity.
Urgent Dental Problems include:
- Severe dental pain from pulpal inflammation
- Wisdom tooth pain, pain due to infected/ inflamed gums
- Post-surgical pain
- Abscess, or localized bacterial infection resulting in localized pain and swelling
- Tooth fracture resulting in pain or causing soft tissue trauma
- Dental trauma with avulsion/luxation
- Dental treatment required prior to critical medical procedures
- Final crown/bridge cementation, if the temporary restoration is lost, broken or causing gingival irritation
- Biopsy of abnormal tissue
Intervention:
Your Dentist will prescribe Antibiotics and Painkillers, that will help to relieve severe pain and/or risk of infection.
If symptoms are relieved/not relieved post pharmacological management, you will be scheduled for a physical visit to the dental clinic at the earliest
convenience.
3.OTHER URGENT DENTAL CARE: SCHEDULED /ELECTIVE PROCEDURES includes :
- Extensive dental caries or defective restorations causing pain
- Suture removal
- Denture adjustment on radiation/ oncology patients
- Denture adjustments or repairs when function impeded
- Replacing temporary filling on endo access openings in patients experiencing pain
- Snipping or adjustment of an orthodontic wire or appliances piercing or ulcerating the oral mucosa
Intervention:
Such patients should be tele-counseled and scheduled as a priority
when regular dental services are restored.
4.DENTAL NON EMERGENCY PROCEDURES:
- Initial or periodic oral examinations and recall visits, including routine radiographs
- Routine dental cleaning and preventive therapies
- Initial or periodic oral examinations and recall visits, including routine radiographs
- Routine dental cleaning and preventive therapies
- Orthodontic procedures other than those to address acute issues (e.g. pain, infection, trauma) or other issues critically necessary to prevent harm to the patient
- Extraction of asymptomatic teeth
- Restorative dentistry including treatment of asymptomatic carious lesions
- Aesthetic dental procedures
- Orthodontic procedures other than those to address acute issues (e.g. pain, infection, trauma) or other issues critically necessary to prevent harm to the patient
- Extraction of asymptomatic teeth
- Restorative dentistry including treatment of asymptomatic carious lesions
- Aesthetic dental procedures
Such patients should be telecounselled and scheduled as a priority
when regular dental services are restored.