Prevent That Dental Emergency

1. Prevent That Dental Emergency!

2. Dental emergencies are bound to happen. Everyone knows that a toothache is really no laughing matter. Also, if you have a broken front tooth, let’s just be tight lipped about it until you see your dentist.

3. Familiarize yourself with the two most common dental emergencies and how you can prevent them! • Toothache The most common dental emergency usually happens when the dental decay on a tooth has gone really deep into the nerve of the tooth. The nerve responds by sending out pain signals. Frequently, a tooth can hurt if it is cracked. The crack separates the tooth and hurts upon chewing or can be extremely sensitive to cold.

4. Familiarize yourself with the two most common dental emergencies and how you can prevent them! • Fractured Front Tooth The front teeth are susceptible to injury from vehicular accidents, sports trauma, and from falling onto hard objects that hit the front teeth. Heavy trauma to the front teeth can cause them to fracture or change the alignment of the front teeth, which then causes bite problems.

6. The Invisalign process starts with What you need to do: Call your dentist to ask them if you need to come in right away to fix the tooth, especially if the whole tooth came out or broke off. Do not bite on the broken tooth.

7. If you are having any sort of dental emergency, are looking to get a dental cleaning after reading this blog, want to discuss oral hygiene habits and a regimen that will help you keep your dental health at an optimum to prevent a dental emergency, or need a night guard/sports guard, please call us at 312.7124.7161 and Dr. Shah can help take care of your emergency!

8. Call Dental Smiles of West Loop, your Chicago dentist today at 312-724-7161 to schedule an appointment!http://dentalsmilesofwestloop.com/