When you have a dental emergency, you might not realize the urgency of your situation until it's too late. Emergency dental services are designed to help patients in accidents or other dental emergencies get the care they need rapidly, even if the patient needs care outside of normal dental clinic hours.

Here are reasons why it's important to understand what emergency dental services are. An emergency dentist can treat your symptoms and help preserve your smile — and even your overall health.

You can save a tooth you'd otherwise lose

If you chip, knock loose, or even knock out a tooth, you need to seek emergency dental services right away. The sooner you treat a tooth, which has a live root and a nerve system, the more likely you can be to preserve the tooth and keep it intact.

The money you spend on emergency dental services to preserve your tooth will be far less than you'll spend having to replace a lost tooth with a dental implant. Keep this in mind if you get in a situation where you need to have dental treatments right away.

You can keep an infection from spreading

An infected tooth is painful, but it's also potentially dangerous. A tooth infection can spread into your sinuses, and if you have an autoimmune disorder, can spread even further and make you ill. The pain from an infected tooth can make it difficult to sleep and may induce lots of stress responses in your body, which could lead to disaster if you don't have emergency dental services done.

Even if an infected tooth isn't going to affect the rest of your body, it may still affect the rest of your teeth. The rotting tooth can infect neighboring teeth infected as well, which makes for a more expensive dental situation.

If you are fevered, swollen, having troubles breathing, or have bleeding that is uncontrolled, call emergency services right away. Your emergency care physician can refer you to a dentist if necessary so you can get the care you need.

If you aren't sure if you have a dental emergency, call an emergency dental services clinic and they'll let you know. You will be treated in line according to the severity of your situation. If you don't have a dental emergency, you will be scheduled at the next available appointment and given instructions for how to treat your symptoms at home. Contact an emergency dental service for more information. 

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