We understand. Being “afraid of the dentist” is very common. We recognise the impact bad dental experiences can have on your tolerance of treatment and we have a lot of strategies to help you with this. Be assured we do everything we can to make your visit as comfortable and stress-free as we can. We are extremely gentle and non-judgmental.
If a toothache is keeping you awake at night and pain relief medication doesn’t reduce it, you should book your emergency appointment with us as soon as possible.
Try not to rub the area. Use a cold pack, rinse with lukewarm salty water and ask someone to drive you to your emergency appointment.
After evaluating the tooth, we will give you several options, with the advantages and disadvantages of every case.
If involved in an accident or sports injury, you have to act fast. Pick up the tooth from the crown (do not touch the root). If some soil is present, rinse the tooth with cool water or milk without rubbing it. Try to place it back gently in the socket (where it came out from) in the correct position.
If unsure or afraid to do it, don’t worry, put it in a small container with milk and come to visit us as soon as possible.
If you have broken or chipped your tooth, or you have a missing filling with minimal or no pain, try to get to see us within a week. If the pain becomes uncomfortable or the tooth is broken under the gum, please call us or book online for an emergency appointment.
Wisdom teeth pain can be quite unbearable. Try to use a cold pack outside of your face and rinse your mouth with lukewarm salty water several times. Make an appointment to see us.
It happens when there is an excess of a build-up of plaque and calculus (scale) on your teeth. You will probably require a deep clean (with numbing cream of course!) in our dental clinic. We will prescribe you some pain relief and/or antibiotics if needed. In the meantime, keep your mouth as clean, rinse with an antibacterial mouthwash or lukewarm salty water.
Book your appointment and come to see us as soon as possible.
Try to find the crown and keep it. In most cases, it can be easily re-cemented at our office. If you feel the crown is loose, don’t chew on it and make an appointment. It is normal sometimes to feel some sensitivity in that tooth.
We always try to save our patient’s teeth, but sometimes a tooth needs to be removed to improve oral health. A tooth that cannot be repaired and causes the infection is better to have it out.
Before the extraction, we will numb the tooth and the surrounding areas in your mouth. Then we will touch the tooth and ask you if it is completely numb before attempting to remove it. If required we will add extra numbing and only when is numb we will extract it.
Our promise is 100% no pain on extractions!
We do simple and surgical extractions at Canberry Dental, but for more complicated cases we will refer you to the specialist (oral surgeon).
If the nerve of the tooth is affected, you have constant pain but the tooth is suitable to be fixed, you can have a root canal treatment. This is sometimes an option to avoid the extraction of the tooth.
It comprises removing the internal soft tissue or pulp from the tooth, applying antibiotics and analgesics inside and cleaning the root canal. In a second
appointment, when you feel better and are out of pain, we seal the canal with a special material called Guttapercha. Then a permanent filling or crown is placed on the top of the tooth.
