What are Dental Emergencies ?

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: 

 Routine or non-urgent dental procedures include but are not limited to:

• 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

 Intervention:

Such patients should be  telecounselled and scheduled as a priority when regular dental services are restored.

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Root Canal Treatment After Care

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Tooth extraction after care

Post Operative Instructions After a Root Canal Treatment

1. Root Canal treatment is done, to save your decayed/carious tooth, that might or might not have pain. The treatment might require a Single sitting or Multiple sittings at an interval of two or three days.
2. Your Dentist might prescribe you with Antibiotics and painkillers (if required) one or two days prior to your appointment date. Kindly start with your medications as instructed by your Dentist. It is essential to start with pre-medications because the local anesthetic will not act completely in the area of severe infection. Starting with an antibiotic course prior to your appointment reduces the infection, just enough for the anesthetic to act completely. Even after prescribing, if you have not started or you have missed your medication, do inform your Dentist about the same.
3. Always eat something one hour prior to your appointment. Do not go empty stomach or do not starve before your appointment. However, if you are fasting, kindly inform your Dentist about the same.
4. Your teeth might require to be numbed with a local anesthetic prior to your treatment so that you do not experience any pain during the treatment.
5. Avoid eating anything, post your treatment, until the effect of anesthesia wears off. Do not check if the effect of anesthesia has worn off, by biting your lips or the tongue. You might not realize the amount of pressure with which you are biting and that might lead to a cut or an ulcer on your lips or cheeks.
6. If your Root Canal treatment requires multiple sittings, your Dentist would fill the tooth with a Temporary cement. Do not eat anything for an hour until the cement hardens and sets.
7. If your tooth requires multiple sittings, Do complete the treatment in the stipulated amount of time as suggested by your Dentist. Do not delay your treatment at your will. Doing so can lead to the re-infection as well as an increase in the number of sittings required for your treatment. That might ultimately increase your treatment cost as well.
8. You can Brush all your Teeth as usual, including the tooth undergoing treatment. Flossing should be done at least once in a day.
9. Avoid eating anything from the side of the tooth that is undergoing treatment. Chewing of food(even soft food) would inflict pain in the tooth undergoing treatment. You can start eating from that side once your entire treatment is completed with placing of a Cap/Crown on the tooth.
10. Post Root Canal Treatment since there is no blood supply to the tooth, the tooth tends to become Brittle. Avoid eating hard food from over the Root Canal treated tooth. Eating hard food over that tooth might fracture and damage your tooth.
11. Avoid eating Sticky and Chewy food from over the capped tooth. Sticky chewy food over time can make your cap fall off from over your tooth. If your cap falls off and if the tooth is not damaged, you can get the same cap recemented by your Dentist, provided you visit him within one weeks period of time. If you neglect and delay visiting your Dentist over a week the same cap cannot be fixed and you will have to go in for fabrication of a new cap.
12. Do inform your Dentist about any Medical conditions that you have. Informing your medical history is of utmost importance so that no other complications arise during your treatment. You might be asked to get a Fitness certificate from your physician prior to your treatment.