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If you're experiencing a dental emergency in Holland, Ohio, or other western Toledo communities, please call:
(419) 866-4271
Dr. Natalie Nechvatal offers emergency dentistry services to patients in the Metro Toledo area and the western suburban communities. We can almost always see emergency patients the same day they call. Our goal is to quickly diagnose your dental emergency and get you helped right away.
We are located at:
7100 Spring Meadows West Dr
Holland, Ohio 43528
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Dental pain, toothaches and the shooting or throbbing pain that can stem to other parts of your gums, face and jaw can be like no other pain you typically would suffer from. It can be shocking, constant and simply shut you down. You just want it to go away and you'll pretty much do anything to make that happen. Fortunately, most dental emergencies (outside of severe trauma, oral or facial lacerations) are treatable at Light Touch Dental Care.
A toothache may come and go, but when your tooth aches it gets your full attention in a hurry. Teeth can hurt from a variety of reasons. The tooth could be cracked; The tooth could have a large cavity or maybe just a small cavity that occurs in a precisely bad place (close to a nerve); The tooth could have an exposed root; There could be an infection around the tooth or within the tooth; Or the tooth or surrounding teeth may be subject to gum disease (periodontal disease).
It is very important that you see a dentist as soon as you can to evaluate the condition. Over-the-counter medicines and pain killers will only mask the problem until the symptoms appear to subside temporarily. What causes a toothache one day will keep causing it in the future. In fact, if the problem caused one tooth to hurt today the chances are very good that the problem will cause many more to hurt or have problems, soon down the road.
Quick Tips:
Call us at 419-866-4271 and schedule an emergency dental exam.
If you cannot make an appointment or come in to see us right away, you may try over-the-counter medicines to calm the symptoms temporarily.
If you have inflammation around a tooth or swelling directly around the area or the surrounding cheeks or gums, you can try to mitigate this symptom with a strong dose of an anti-inflammatory medicine such as ibuprofen (Motrin, Advil, others). This anti-inflammatory medicine may temporarily reduce both pain and swelling if you take 600 to 800 milligrams (typically 3 or 4 200mg tablets). However, this is an obvious indication also that emergency dental treatment is necessary. Contact us as soon as you can to schedule your emergency dental care. Also a WARNING: ibuprofen is an NSAID (Non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drug) and NSAIDs can cause serious health problems if taken, if taken regularly, if taken in large doses or if abused. It is not recommended that NSAIDs be taken regularly if dental pain persists.
An injury such as a broken or completely knocked out tooth is a dental emergency and must be attended to by a dentist. Most often, the missing tooth cannot be saved but time is still of the utmost importance if there is any chance. Any further damage to the surrounding bone or tissue could cause further infection or complications. Call us as soon as you can to set up the earliest appointment you can possibly make.
Quick Tips:
Call us at 419-866-4271 and schedule an emergency dentist appointment.
Rinse the area and your mouth out with warm water or diluted salt water to clean as much away from the wound as possible. Use cold compresses on the affected area to keep swelling down.
If the tooth has been completely and fairly cleanly displaced from it's socket and you can do so, get a small cup/glass/carton of milk (whatever kind you can quickly get your hands on) and put the tooth (or teeth) in it. Don't forget to bring the tooth (or teeth) in the milk with you for your emergency visit.
It happens - moving fast, talking fast or activities get a little rough or out of control...
An injury or cut to the lip or tongue can taste worse than it is. They also tend to heal fast. However, being gentle during initial treatment of the injury and during recovery (leaving it be!) can be a challenge. The first thing to identify is the significance or continuation of bleeding. If, after attending to the wound significant bleeding continues, you are likely headed to a hospital emergency room or other emergency physician immediately.
Quick Tips:
Clean the area very gently with a clean cloth or towel. Apply cold compresses to try to slow or stop any bleeding and reduce any swelling. If slight bleeding continues you can alternate dry cold compresses with moist cold compresses (wrapped ice or ice-water dampened towels) until bleeding subsides.
If the bleeding does not subside or lessen fairly quickly, or if at any time bleeding becomes serious or intensifies,
immediately head to an emergency room or emergency physician to attend to the injury.
We've seen it before, and it goes without saying... but: No foreign objects belong in between your teeth unless a trained dental professional is using sterilized and proper materials to treat you or clean your teeth in a dental office.
Quick Tips:
If you, for whatever reason, find yourself in the position of having to try to remove metal, plastic or any other solid objects from in between teeth which are stuck or caught, resort only to using dental floss or at most the bristles of your tooth brush. Do not, at any time, use another solid or sharp object (paper clip, knife, pin, razor blade, scissors, skewer... not even a toothpick) to try to remove another object stuck in between your teeth or gums.
If the use of dental floss or your tooth brush bristles is not enough to remove the object from being caught up between your teeth you should call us at 419-866-4271 and schedule an emergency dental appointment.
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