GENERAL Treatments
Emergency Dental Care
Emergency Dentist in Martock, Somerset
Emergency Dentist appointments available
Dental emergencies may arrive at odd and unpredictable times. It is important that you and your loved ones are attended to promptly to relieve pain.
Emergency dental care may be required when you do not have a pre-booked appointment. We recommend you call us as soon as you feel you are having a dental emergency.
We always keep dedicated emergency slots for our registered patients every working day, we recommend that you contact us first thing in the morning to reserve this to be seen on the same day.
If you are not registered with us, we will still try our best to help. Please contact our friendly reception team.
Out of hours information for urgent dental care​
Private Patients
Private Patients can phone the above or the practice on 01935 823040 and follow the instructions provided in the recorded message and the duty dentist will get back to you. This is a chargeable service that is not funded by the NHS. Our monthly plan patients may be exempt from charges however.The inability to swallow, breathe or talk is a medical/ high level dental emergency and is best dealt with in a hospital.
Please ring 999 urgently.
FAQ
What is considered a dental emergency?
Facial trauma causing fractured teeth and pain, toothache causing excruciating pain and uncontrollable with pain killers, excessive bleeding after an extraction, swelling inside or outside of the mouth arising from a tooth, broken front teeth if effecting aesthetics, sudden onset mobility of teeth and a non healing socket or a non healing ulcer for more than 2 weeks are all considered to be dental emergencies for which we recommend you seek urgent dental care.Â
What is not classed as a dental emergency?
Broken teeth that cause no pain, very minor bleeding and pain or discomfort after an extraction, pain or discomfort after a deep filling or Root Canal treatment especially day 3-5 do still need attention but may not need urgent dental care.Â
Sometimes these will only need advice over the phone however if needed we will aim to book you in as soon as possible.
Can Urgent Care drain a tooth abscess?
Pressure build up in and around the nerve/root of a tooth due to an infection is also known as a dental abscess and can be very painful.
To offer urgent dental care, we would give you plenty of local anaesthetic and then drain the abscess.
The tooth is then dressed and sealed with a temporary dressing to allow the dentist to work on the tooth at a later date to fill the tooth with a permanent filling material.