Emergency Dental Care
Tooth injury can surprise you anytime and may require immediate emergency dental care. Dental emergencies such as toothache sometimes happen when you’re out having fun at sports or during a nice dinner with friends. This might become a stressful situation since it most likely occurs after 5 pm when most dental offices are closed or over the weekend.
Therefore, it is comforting to have access to emergency dental care right away. In addition, a 24-hour emergency dentist helps to save a trip to an urgent care clinic or the hospital emergency room. We are always available at San Marcos Dental Studio for your urgent dental care and consultation.
Do I have dental emergency?
Broken teeth, dental infections, severe or radiating tooth pain, swollen gums, and a dislodged crown or bridge all count as dental emergencies. Some problems simply cannot wait, and treating them quickly often saves the tooth.
Tooth trouble tends to start at the worst moment, during dinner with friends or a weekend game, after most dental offices in San Marcos have closed. That's why we keep room in our schedule for urgent visits instead of sending you to an urgent care clinic or the hospital.
What should you do about a severe toothache?
Call us right away; severe tooth pain usually means the tooth needs prompt treatment, and waiting tends to make it worse.
Toothaches are the most common reason patients call us urgently. The pain can radiate to your neck, temple, jawbone, or behind your ear, and your face or gums may swell. Pain like this often points to infection inside the tooth, which we can treat with root canal therapy, usually performed in-house rather than at a referral office across town.
See us the same day
An urgent visit can save your tooth, stop an infection from spreading, and relieve your pain.
When you arrive, our first priority is getting you comfortable. Then we go over every option for restoring the tooth's long-term health, which may mean a filling, a crown, or an extraction when a tooth cannot be saved. We accept most PPO insurance plans, and our in-house discount plan keeps urgent care affordable for patients without coverage.
Call us right away at (760) 471-9560, and we will take care of you.
Frequently asked questions
The cost depends on what the tooth needs, so we cannot quote a price before examining you. We accept most PPO insurance plans and cash, credit card, and financing payments, and our in-house discount plan covers patients without insurance. We review your options and their costs with you before any treatment starts.
Yes. We offer same-day urgent visits and after-hours appointments. Call our main office number, describe what is happening, and our team will get you in and tell you what to do for the tooth in the meantime.
No. We treat first-time patients in urgent situations. If you searched for a San Marcos emergency dentist and have never visited us before, call anyway, and we will take care of you.
Pick the tooth up by the crown (the chewing end), not the root, and keep it moist in milk or tucked inside your cheek until you reach our office. A knocked-out adult tooth has the best chance of being saved when it is treated quickly, so call us as soon as it happens.
Go to the ER first if you have trouble breathing or swallowing, a possible jaw fracture, or bleeding that will not stop. For tooth pain, chips, lost crowns, and most infections, come to us instead; hospital emergency rooms generally cannot perform dental work, so they treat symptoms and send you to a dentist afterward.
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