McAllen, TX -- (SBWIRE) -- 05/11/2015 -- Dental emergencies are common occurrences in almost all people all over the world. Every person has experienced some dental or oral problems at least once in their lives, and dental emergencies are not an exception. In these types of circumstances, dentists should always be prepared and up-to-date in terms of the current dental advancements in the treatment of the various emergency situations involving oral and dental dilemmas.

Based on the statistics released by the National Hospital Ambulatory Medical Care Survey or the NHAMCS, the number of emergency department visits related to dental emergencies in the United States has continuously been escalating and based on the survey conducted. Dental caries was the most prevalent diagnosis which is 41.8% of all the emergency department visits. Hence, the prescription of analgesics and antibiotics has been the most common and effective immediate treatments advised by dental health professionals since these conditions can be best treated in an outpatient dental facility.

The survey revealed that the number of dental emergency visits in the United States have tremendously increased from 1.1 million in the year 2000 and have reached up to 2.1 million in the year 2010.

In this regard, knowing what dental emergencies are commonly prompting people to go to the emergency department for urgent treatment may help in the prevention and reduction of emergency dental visits. The most prevalent dental emergencies are as follows:

1) Dental Caries. As what have been mentioned, dental caries has been the most ubiquitous dental cases which emergency dental professionals from the emergency department of various hospitals due to the intolerable symptoms. And because the tooth has been damaged because of the infection, excruciating pain may set in, and this would prompt the patient to seek urgent dental treatment.
2) Lost tooth fillings can be very alarming also because food particles can be trapped inside the cavitations where the fillings were originally placed. Anything trapped would also trigger pain which compels the person to decide to seek immediate dental treatment.
3) A lost tooth cap or crown would also produce severe pain and severe tooth sensitivity making it difficult to eat.
4) Chipped or broken tooth in some severe cases may cause serious inflammation and unbearable pain. When this happens, it's best to save the dislodged tooth or the part of the tooth that was chipped and have the mouth rinsed with warm water and because bleeding may sometimes be profuse, going to the emergency department will be the best option.
5) Knocked out tooth is one of the most serious dental emergencies because most of these cases are due to accidents. One of the best dentist in Mcallen TX advises that the best thing to do in this kind of situation is to rinse the tooth carefully without removing the tissues attached to it and keep it in water with a little salt added to preserve it. For a better chance to still save the tooth that has been accidentally removed, have an emergency visit to the dentist for proper treatment.

These are the most widespread dental emergencies that prompt people to seek instantaneous dental treatments. People can either go to the hospital's emergency department or they could call their dentists for an emergency appointment.

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