At Riviera Dental Care, we understand that you can’t prepare for everything. Fortunately, we stay ready for any dental emergencies that might come your way! Our compassionate staff provides urgent dental care for the Foley, AL, community with a dedication to your comfort and health. Whether you crack a tooth, feel intense tooth pain, or experience swelling, we’re here to provide your much-needed relief. If you believe you’re having a dental emergency, contact us immediately to learn what our knowledgeable team can do for you and your smile!
What Counts as Urgent Dental Care?
At Riviera Dental Care, we consider many problems to be dental emergencies. These include:
Swelling: If you believe your gum tissue is beginning to swell, it’s time to make an urgent dental care appointment. While brushing too hard occasionally causes swelling or bleeding gums, it should never be persistent. Often, swollen gums are a sign of infection, irritation, or gum disease, so it’s important to receive prompt treatment from our team.- Pain: Dental pain is never a good sign, especially if it is intense and persistent. Tooth pain may be a result of decay or bacterial infection, which requires immediate treatment. Ignoring these signs often results in a much worse problem, which may even lead to tooth loss!
- Trauma: Broken, cracked, or split teeth are all dental traumas we must treat as soon as possible. Leaving these teeth alone increases your risk of infection and decay, and may injure the soft tissues of your mouth if the edges of your teeth are sharp.
If you’re experiencing any of these symptoms, we encourage you to call Riviera Dental Care right away. Even if you’re unsure if you’re experiencing a dental emergency, we can help you understand your symptoms and determine if you need to come in.
Experience Relief With Innovative Treatments
After you contact us about urgent dental care, we will try to see you as soon as possible. Sometimes, you may call us outside our normal hours, but our compassionate staff will get back to you and try to make an emergency appointment that fits our busy schedule.
There are a few common treatments we can provide to bring you pain relief in a dental emergency.
If your tooth is causing you intense pain, it may require a root canal procedure. While they have a bad reputation, root canals actually relieve pain more than they cause it! By removing the infection from your tooth, we both provide relief and prevent your tooth from needing extraction.
For problems like gum disease, we have comprehensive treatments that help improve your oral health. In the early stages of gum disease, we provide extensive deep cleanings of your smile to remove plaque and the buildup of bacteria. Thankfully, this early stage is reversible.
However, advanced gum disease has irreversible effects on your smile. To treat late-stage gum disease, we provide scaling and root planning, which involves cleaning under the gum line and smoothing the surface of your tooth roots. Additionally, Riviera Dental Care uses innovative laser technology to treat advanced gum disease.
If your damaged tooth needs a dental crown, we have a state-of-the-art CEREC machine that crafts a custom crown in a single visit! At your appointment, we’ll take a 3D image of your smile and use it to design a custom crown. With our CEREC machine, we can mill your crown in-house, replicating the model crown perfectly with real ceramic. Once it’s ready, we’ll make sure it feels as good as it looks and then cement it in place!
Contact us ASAP for Your Urgent Dental Care Needs
If you believe you’re experiencing a dental emergency, contact Riviera Dental Care as soon as possible. With our prompt intervention and innovative treatments, we can provide pain relief to keep you comfortable. Our treatments are patient-centered, meaning that we always treat your comfort and oral health as a priority. No matter what the dental emergency is, contact us right away for your urgent dental care.
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