Emergency Dental Care

Question 1

What are the 3 possible outcomes when a patient phones for dental emergency ?

Answer 1

• Emergency care required
• Urgent care required
• Advice, self help and routine care required

Question 2

What are examples of incidents that require emergency dental care?

Answer 2

• trauma including facial/oral laceration and/or dentoalveolar injury
• Oro-facial swelling
• Post extraction bleeding the patient can’t control with local measures
• Dental conditions that have causes acute systemic illness or raised temperature
• Severe trismus
• oro-dental conditions likely to exacerbate systemic medical conditions (e.g. diabetes)

Question 3

Who provides emergency dental care?

Answer 3

During normal working hours - dental practise patient is registered at

Out of hours - maxillofacial on call