When an emergency strikes, you need someone you can rely on. In a dental emergency, an emergency dentist is the only one you can trust to care for your smile! In Temecula, CA, Healthy Habit Dental Care offers emergency services for urgent dental issues. If you’re experiencing severe tooth pain, swollen gums, or a broken dental restoration, you need prompt dental care to keep your smile happy and healthy. Visit Dr. Myrna Aguilar, Dr. Karen Becerra-Penagos, and Dr. Patricia Patino for fast and effective pain relief.
When To Call an Emergency Dentist
A dental emergency is any dental issue that is in need of urgent care. Often, these problems come with pain or swelling that disrupts your everyday life. Common reasons to call an emergency dentist include:
Severe tooth pain- Knocked out teeth
- Damaged teeth
- Swollen gums
- Dental abscesses
- Broken restorations
However, not every dental problem qualifies as an emergency.
Sensitive teeth, small chips and cracks, and minor toothaches typically won’t need urgent treatment. But if you’re unsure, we encourage you to contact our office as soon as possible. Over the phone, we’ll be able to help determine whether your problem requires immediate attention or schedule an appointment for care at a later date.
Your Emergency Dentist in Temecula, CA
Healthy Habit Dental Care is committed to providing quality dental treatment and fast pain relief. If you are a current patient of ours, we will try to see you the same day. While we may not always be able to treat your problem that day, we will provide effective pain relief to keep you comfortable.
For new patients, we still accommodate emergencies, but you’ll typically need to wait for the next available appointment. Please contact us as soon as possible to learn how we can help your smile.
To treat dental emergencies, an emergency dentist may use any of the following treatments.
Gum Disease Treatment
Gum disease is the slow buildup of plaque and bacteria. It begins with gingivitis, which often goes undetected by patients without a dental professional’s intervention.
If left untreated, gingivitis advances into periodontitis. This infection is more serious as bacteria begin to spread below your gums. Symptoms of periodontitis include deep pockets of bacteria (abscesses), gum recession, and even loose teeth. Without immediate treatment, periodontitis may cause irreparable damage to your oral health and eventually result in tooth loss.
But with gum disease treatment at Healthy Habit Dental Care, we can effectively halt its progression. For gingivitis, we perform professional cleanings to remove plaque buildup and flush out infection. For periodontitis, treatment is more complex. Deep cleanings, antibiotics, and even laser dentistry to remove infected tissue and sterilize your gums may be necessary to treat the stubborn infection.
Root Canal Treatment
If you’re experiencing severe and persistent tooth pain, it may be a sign of a root canal infection.
A root canal is the hollow chamber inside your tooth roots (or the bottom portion of the tooth, hidden under the gums). Inside this canal is dental pulp, or a collection of connective tissue, blood vessels, and nerves. If an infection breaches your outer layer of enamel, it will reach inside your tooth and infect your dental pulp. A root canal infection causes intense pain that disrupts your daily life and may even keep you up at night.
Fortunately, with root canal treatment, Healthy Habit Dental Care can remove the infection! Rather than pulling your tooth, root canal therapy allows us to carefully remove the infected pulp, clean your tooth, and seal it to prevent further infection.
After root canal treatment, we use a dental filling or crown to protect your tooth and fortify its structure.
Same-Day Crowns
When large cavities form or your tooth gets damaged, we may need to use a dental crown to protect it.
These tooth-shaped caps cover teeth, fortifying their structure and keeping them functional. Additionally, at our office, we use a state-of-the-art CEREC machine to create a custom crown in just one day!
After preparing your tooth by removing enamel from all sides, we then take an impression of your smile. Using this impression, we design and craft a high-quality porcelain crown to match your natural teeth. Once it’s ready, we then cement the crown on top of your prepared tooth, protecting it for years to come.
Tooth Extractions
When a tooth is severely damaged or infected, it poses a risk to your oral health. In that case, extracting it may be your best option.
But don’t worry! Healthy Habit Dental Care uses an electrosurgical unit to perform less-traumatic extractions. This machine uses advanced technology to carefully remove your tooth, preserving the tissues that surround it.
Not only does a gentle extraction method minimize bleeding, but it also speeds up the healing process.
Dental Implants
When teeth are missing, whether due to decay, accident, or extraction, prompt replacement is essential. Fortunately, dental implants do just that.
Healthy Habit Dental Care offers two types of dental implants.
Conventional dental implants are larger with a multi-piece structure. While effective, these titanium screws require multiple placement appointments, which isn’t ideal for dental emergencies.
In contrast, mini dental implants are much smaller, with a one-piece design that allows for immediate placement.
These small titanium posts have a minimally invasive placement procedure that allows for fast healing. In fact, we can even extract a tooth and place an implant the same day, with a functional but temporary restoration on top. Then, in just a few weeks, we’ll replace the temporary crown, bridge, or denture with a final restoration to restore your smile.
Visit an Emergency Dentist in Temecula, CA, for Fast Relief
Dental emergencies require professional and urgent treatment. At Healthy Habit Dental Care, our compassionate staff provides effective care to relieve pain and treat dental issues. Whether you’re experiencing severe tooth pain, dental trauma, or gum disease, we have a solution that will work for you.
If you’re experiencing a dental emergency, visit us in Temecula, CA, for fast, effective relief!
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