Emergency Dentist at Anthem Dental

In pain right now? Here's what to do.

Call the Anthem Dental office nearest you as early in the day as you can. We'll triage your situation over the phone, get you seen as quickly as we're able, and focus first on relieving your pain before we discuss any longer-term treatment.

You'll never be pressured into a permanent decision while you're hurting. We stabilize the problem, explain your options calmly, and give you a clear written estimate before anything begins.

We regularly help with:

• Severe or lingering toothaches — Pain that lingers with hot or cold, or a throb that wakes you at night, usually means the infection has reached the tooth's nerve. A root canal relieves that pain and lets you keep the natural tooth.
• Broken, chipped, or cracked teeth — A tooth broken at the gumline or too damaged for a filling to hold usually needs a crown to restore it, or in more serious cases a surgical extraction — imaging tells us which before we begin, all done under complete local anesthesia.
• Knocked-out (avulsed) teeth — The first hour matters most for saving the tooth. See the step-by-step guidance below for exactly what to do before you reach us.
• Lost or loose crowns and fillings — A lost crown or filling that's causing pain warrants a call right away. Many replacement crowns are designed, milled, and placed in-office in a single visit — no second appointment needed.
• Abscesses, swelling, and infection pain — Facial swelling or a pimple-like bump on the gum are signs of infection. Treatment is usually a root canal to remove the infected tissue, or an extraction when a tooth can't be saved.
• Dental trauma after an accident or sports injury — Whatever the cause, our first priority is getting you out of pain — then, once we know the extent of the damage, we'll walk you through repair options, from bonding to a crown to root canal therapy, calmly and without pressure.