Find an Emergency Dentist
in Stockton, CA

Are you currently dealing with a dental emergency and are struggling to find an emergency dentist in Stockton? If so, you’re not alone. We, along with hundreds of patients, have been exactly where you are right now, which is why we’ve created our 24-hour emergency dentist referral network to help patients find the emergency dentist Stockton help they need. Call us right now at (855)-352-6790 and we’ll get back to with an appointment booked in your name in a minimum of 24 hours.

Everything You’ll Need for Your Appointment

To ensure your appointment goes as smoothly as possible, make sure you have the following listed below already ready to take with you before you leave for your appointment:

• Recent paperwork or documentation that was given to you during your most recent visit to the dentist
• If applicable, insurance information required for filing a dental insurance claim
• A list containing your medications and known allergies

To ensure you’ll have more than enough time to fill out paperwork, ask any questions you may have, and make your fears known, you’ll need to arrive at least 15 minutes before your appointment is scheduled to begin.

The Most Common Dental Emergencies

Dental emergencies are classified as either the result of an accident or injury, or because of an underlying oral health problem that was never treated. If your dental emergency is the former, you need to make sure any sustained head trauma is treated first.

Knocked Out or Otherwise Lost Teeth

Losing our adult teeth isn’t supposed to happen, so it’s pretty scary and alarming if and when it does happen. If you’ve had a tooth knocked out, however, you need to get assessed for head trauma and have it treated before anything else. If you’ve been successful in finding the knocked out or lost tooth, make sure you only handle it by the crown. Handling it by the root, even just a couple of times, can cause irreversible damage that will likely make it impossible for it to be safely implanted back into the empty socket by the emergency dentist we book you with. You can put it temporarily back into the empty socket yourself to keep the tooth safe and preserved, but you can also store it in a cup of milk or water.

Abscessed Teeth, Infected Gums, and Oral Infections

Oral infections, in general, are just as nasty and dangerous as any other type of bodily infection. They spread, infect the rest of the body, and can become fatal, as any other infection does. Because of this, it’s important to identify oral infections before they become a massive, blindingly painful problem. Once the pain starts due to an oral infection, the clock starts ticking. Looking for anything out of the ordinary, such as a red bump on your gums or anywhere else in your mouth, is one of the best ways to check to see if you have an oral infection. If you find something that isn’t supposed to be in your mouth, or suspect an oral infection is present, otherwise, call us right away. Time is not on your side with any type of infection, oral or not.

The Loss of a Filling or a Crown

Lots of patients have had to get either a filling or a crown put in place, but not all patients realize the severity of losing one. Once a filling or a crown has come loose and fallen out, swift action must be taken to protect the tooth from further harm until you can get to the appointment we’ve booked for you. Find some dental cement, pieces of gauze, or even some cotton balls. Whichever protection method you use, make sure you’re consistent and keep the open, exposed tooth covered at all times. If the tooth receives any additional damage while you wait for your appointment, the emergency dentist may have no choice put to pull it. Depending on the extent of the damage, the emergency dentist may not be able to refill or recap the tooth.

Facing an Emergency Tooth Extraction

Being told you need to have an emergency tooth extraction is downright scary, no doubt. Fortunately, the best way you can be prepared for one, be it at your next appointment or possibly in the future, is to know what will happen during the procedure. The procedure will begin with a numbing agent being injected into the extraction site. This ensures no pain will be felt whatsoever when the tooth is removed. The tooth will be removed either whole or by being broken up into pieces. Once the tooth has been fully removed, someone from the emergency dentist’s staff, or the emergency dentist, will sit down with you to go over important aftercare instructions. You will need to follow these instructions at home to avoid developing an infection in the extraction site.

Same Day Denture Repair in Stockton

It can be hard to find same day denture repair in Stockton, especially when it comes to emergency denture repair Stockton. Thankfully for patients, however, we’ve added denture lab technicians who work closely with emergency dentists to our emergency dentist referral network. You can go through a fitting for a new set of dentures or have repairs made to your current set on the same day, during a single appointment.

Emergency Room Doctor vs Emergency Dentist

More often than not, both an emergency room doctor and an emergency dentist are needed, but where do you go first? Emergency room doctors are your only option for treating any sustained head trauma, which is your first priority injury. We can book you with an emergency dentist while you receive treatment for your head trauma, so call us at your earliest convenience.