To See Or Not To See An Emergency Dentist???
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I pray thee, peace. I will be flesh and blood,
For there was never yet philosopher
That could endure the toothache patiently,
However they have writ the style of gods
And made a push at chance and sufferance.
– Much Ado About Nothing (5.1.35-40)
Ah, Shakespeare. Ah, teeth. The grim reality of the Elizabethan dental scene where a mouth black and rotten with decay and its stench was a revered symbol of high social status. (And yes, you can find “halitosis” in that.) Oh, the suffering of the incomprehensible human. The human adhered to projections and perceptions of prestige and the deterioration that comes with it in the cascade of sugar brought by the Crusades. The human for whom the agony of toothache is so universally and viscerally understood that five hundred years have not diminished a reach that punches smack in the side of the head and lower gut all at once.
Even the formulaic realism Ludivico Ariosto splashed through his Italian Renaissance epic ‘Orlando Furioso’ doesn’t have anywhere near the terminal vibrato of “endure the toothache patiently”. No amount of graphic, anatomically correct descriptions of faces split cleanly in two, three and four soldiers skewered like a kebab, blood rivers pooling and eyes still blinking in the airborne head of blade sliced through bone and muscle even comes close.
One noun, one article, one verb, one adverb.
The thinker reasons logically.
Logically, we have no idea of the 8th century Orlando inhabits, nor of the 1500s in which it was quilled onto sheets of rag paper. We don’t have anyone with the life experience to ask what it’s like to wage war with swords and maces, slings, hammers and armour; let alone those few weapons Ariosto bestowed with magical abilities. Not even the searchiest search engine will find a conducive facebook or TikTok profile primary source or survivor account.
Key anything into the omnibox about first-hand experiences with emergency dentists and close to 300,000,000 results pop up.
Were that to be representative of the global adult population, it’d be more than 5%. On a global scale for those who like statistics that are closer to lies than damn lies, WHO cites 60 million injuries per year as requiring emergency dental care. That’s almost three in every hundred events; and for the first 30 years on Earth, of all acute injuries sustained 5% will be oral.
So common is the fear – sometimes phobia – of having a dental emergency, any sentence with the words “oral” and “injuries” is an emotional prang. We imagine the immediate horror of a tooth smashed. The taste of blood, the jaggedness felt by a tongue that can’t leave it alone. The painful and terrible swelling.
Countless movies cash in on it, and some stars have willingly or otherwise paid a price.
Brad Pitt and Ed Helms both had existing dental work deconstructions for their roles. Johnny Depp had gold crowns put in for Jack Sparrow. At 19, Nic Cage had the already scheduled removal of two baby teeth done without anaesthetic in order to better understand his character, Sargent Al Columbato, in the film ‘Birdy’.
At 40 Charlize Theron had surgery on back teeth that had cracked from jaw clenching during stunt training for ‘Atomic Blonde’.
Daniel Craig’s two front teeth were knocked out during the making of ‘Casino Royale’.
For him, emergency dentistry involves flying your dentist from London to Prague.
For the rest of us, unless you’re in the outback, any emergency dentistry flying doesn’t involve a plane; nor is the clinician en route to us. In the truly unfortunate event of it happening, the usual flying that’s done is into a blind panic. Since that’s generally a side effect of not knowing what to do, and it’s not a very useful reaction in any crisis situation, it helps to make it easier on yourself by knowing a few things.
What constitutes seeing an emergency dentist is not completely divorced from what constitutes seeing any emergency department medical professional. And while any public hospital casualty department can assist with triage, pain management and antibiotics, there are no on-site dentists. Many private clinics offer after-hours appointments, and public dental services also cater for urgencies but not outside normal hours.
Any trauma to the mouth that results in uncontrolled bleeding or teeth being knocked out, warrants a trip to an emergency dentist.
Clearly, it’s a serious injury that should be properly dealt with as soon as possible in the hope that the tooth – if it’s not broken – can reattach. Restoration is time critical, and whatever the cost is likely to be less than the prosthetic, being the only option left after having waited for opening hours.
Painful swelling in the neck, face, gums or under the tongue are signs of infection or abscesses that should never be disregarded because it can kill you. While certainly emergency dentist worthy, just getting to a hospital is good enough. Dental issues can be sorted after dying is no longer a possibility. Any movement past that, through probability to land smack-bang on eventuality, renders anything dentist related make no sense at all.
Unbearable tooth or jaw pain are other indicators an emergency dental appointment is necessary; failing that, the nearest hospital can assist with interim pain relief.
Other than blunt force trauma, the majority of emergency dental appointments can be avoided by simply making normal dental appointments. Regularly. Just twice a year. Then it’s truly unlikely there’ll ever be a toothache that one cannot endure patiently and for which an urgent care dentist must be sought.
Seeking an EMERGENCY Dentist in Sunbury? At Sunbury Dental on Evans if it’s URGENT it’s never a case of To See Or Not To Be See: Call us NOW …