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Emergency Dentist The Woodlands, TX

Quality Dental Care When You Need It Most

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When a dental emergency strikes, you need to act fast. Getting the right kind of treatment quickly from Dr. Sadeddin can make all the difference for minimizing your pain and protecting your smile from further damage. If you reach out to Majestic Dental, we can help you schedule an appointment with our team so that you can get the care that your smile deserves and potentially avoid even worse issues.

Why Choose Majestic Dental for Emergency Dentistry?

  • Wide Range of Dental Services Available
  • Sedation Options for Nervous Patient
  • Caring, Highly Skilled Dentist

How We Treat Dental Emergencies

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  • Emergency Appointment: You should call our office if you believe you are suffering from a dental emergency. Our team will listen as you describe your symptoms, provide appropriate first-aid advice, and make arrangements to see you as soon as we can.
  • Emergency Exam: We’ll need to narrow down the underlying cause of your emergency and figure out how extensive the damage is. As such, we’ll perform a thorough examination of your mouth; this may involve taking X-rays.
  • Review Findings: We’ll explain what we found in your mouth and make sure that you understand your situation. Then we will explain what treatment options are available. When we suggest a specific treatment, we will provide you with an idea of what the cost will look like and how long it will take to complete.
  • Get Your Smile the Care It Needs: From fillings to root canal treatment to tooth extractions, we’re ready to provide the services you need to reclaim a healthy smile.

The Most Common Dental Emergencies

We’re prepared to handle a wide range of dental emergencies, regardless of whether they’re the result of a sudden accident or missteps in oral hygiene. Below, you’ll find examples of some common dental emergencies that our team can help with. Remember, if you think your situation may qualify as a dental emergency but aren’t completely certain, it’s best to err on the side of caution and reach out to our office.

Toothaches

Chipped Tooth

Cracked Tooth

Sensitivity to Hot & Cold

Knocked-Out Tooth

Lost Filling or Crown

Broken Denture

Loose Tooth

Gums, Lips or Tongue Injury

Jaw Pain or Clenching

Something Stuck Between Teeth
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Toothaches

Is My Toothache a Dental Emergency? Toothaches are often perceived as common problems, but they do count as dental emergencies! A bad ache in your tooth could mean you have cavities, gum disease, or a deep infection. Whatever the cause, it’s best to treat the issue as soon as possible.

How You Should Handle a Toothache: Call our office to secure a timely appointment and then focus on relieving your pain. OTC pain relievers can be effective if you have them on hand, a cold compress can help numb the area, and rinsing your mouth with a salt water solution will help eliminate harmful bacteria.

How We Treat Toothaches: How we’ll treat your toothache in The Woodlands depends on the underlying issue. Fillings can restore a tooth suffering from cavities, a root canal can clear your tooth of infection, and we can also provide gum disease therapy. Rest assured, we’ll review your options with you once we get a look at your tooth.

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Chipped Teeth

Is a Chipped Tooth a Dental Emergency? It depends on the size of the chip, but typically it’s safe to wait a day or two to treat this kind of damage. That said, even smaller chips can leave your tooth more vulnerable to infection, so it’s still important to address it quickly.

How You Should Handle a Chipped Tooth: Similar to a cracked tooth, you should avoid eating with your chipped pearly white and rinse your mouth with salt water to eliminate bacteria. You’ll also want to look for the broken piece, then store it in a secure container and bring it with you to your appointment.

How We Treat Chipped Teeth: If you found the chipped off portion of your tooth, we may be able to reattach it. Otherwise, we can fill the area with a tooth-colored composite resin or put a custom veneer in place.

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Cracked Tooth

Is a Cracked Tooth a Dental Emergency? Cracks, even when unseen, can leave your tooth more vulnerable to bacteria and serious oral conditions. Since your risk of developing cavities, gum disease, and infection is higher when you have a cracked tooth, we consider it a dental emergency!

How You Should Handle a Cracked Tooth: Avoid chewing with the side of your mouth that has the cracked tooth and rinse your mouth with salt water regularly. If the crack is causing you discomfort, take OTC pain relievers and apply a cold compress as necessary. We’ll get you treated as soon as possible so you can get back to life as usual!

How We Treat Cracked Teeth: Depending on the severity of the crack, we might protect your tooth with a custom crown or dental veneer. Though they’re primarily used for cosmetics, veneers can effectively shield minor damage. Crowns, meanwhile, are the go-to option for providing more structural support.

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Very Sensitive Teeth

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Knocked-Out Tooth

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Lost Filling or Crown

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Broken Denture

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Loose Permanent Tooth

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Injury to the Gums, Lips, or Tongue

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Jaw Pain

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Something Stuck Between the Teeth

Understanding the Cost of Dental Emergencies

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A patient who only needs a filling won’t pay the same amount for emergency dental care as someone who requires multiple tooth extractions. The nature and severity of your emergency will affect the treatments you receive, which in turn will influence the amount you need to pay. Our practice makes paying for emergency dental care easier by accepting a variety of dental insurance plans as well as CareCredit and Sunbit financing.

Keys to Preventing Dental Emergencies

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You can’t eliminate the chance that you might need emergency dental care at some point in your life. However, you can take certain precautions that can make urgent dental issues less likely to happen, such as:

  • Making good oral hygiene (i.e. brushing and flossing every day) a priority.
  • Wearing a mouthguard while playing any kind of sport.
  • Breaking bad habits that can damage teeth such as crunching ice.
  • Not using your teeth to open packages.

Dental Emergency FAQs

Will a Toothache Go Away on Its Own?

Sadly, toothaches don’t normally go away on their own. You’ll need to see your dentist in the Woodlands to address it for good.

Indeed, note that many different things can cause a toothache. It’s best to confirm which of them is making your own tooth feel pain and discomfort. By learning the source of your ache, you’ll be in a better position to treat it and end your soreness.

If you wait for your ache to “end,” you’ll just put your tooth and smile at risk. What started as pain can soon become an infection that leads to tooth loss, gum recession, and worse.

Can the Emergency Room Remove a Tooth?

An emergency room can certainly help with all sorts of health issues. However, it can’t remove a problematic tooth from your mouth.

You see, only licensed dentists can perform tooth extractions. They’re the ones who have the required training and skill to remove your teeth safely. In contrast, an ER’s staff isn’t equipped to offer removals; the procedure is even illegal for them to perform.

At its best, an emergency room could only provide you with antibiotics and pain medication. It couldn’t take a tooth out of your mouth safely and correctly; only a dentist could.

Should I Worry About a Chipped Tooth If It Doesn’t Hurt?

Even if it doesn’t hurt, a chipped tooth is something you should immediately see a dentist about. Failing to have it examined (or treated) would put your whole smile at risk.

A chipped tooth could expose its sensitive inner area, whether it aches or not. It’d then be in danger of getting an infection that harms your whole mouth. Given that fact, you should have a dentist examine the tooth to ensure its interior is safe. You should also have them repair the chipped area to avoid further breakage.

Are Swollen Gums an Emergency?

Whether your swollen gums are an emergency depends on their cause. Different conditions can cause them, with some being more serious than others.

For example, say you have swollen gum tissue throughout your mouth. This swelling is likely a side effect of gum disease – a condition that isn’t often an emergency. With that said, you should still have the swollen tissue assessed by a dentist fairly soon.

On the other hand, maybe the swelling is only present in one part of your mouth. That would mean it results from a severe infection – a true dental emergency. In this scenario, you should call your dentist and get treatment right away.