Dental Implant Center of Rockville provides emergency dentistry in Rockville, MD. Call 301-294-8700 for urgent dental treatment.
Dr. Sreeni is committed to providing patients with compassionate emergency dental care. If you call during our regular office hours, immediate attention will be given to your situation and we will schedule an emergency dental appointment for you as soon as we can. If you are experiencing a serious or life-threatening emergency, call 911 immediately or go to your nearest emergency room for treatment.
If you have an emergency after hours, you may reach Dr. Sreeni by choosing the option to speak to the doctor.
General Dental Emergencies
During office hours, immediate attention will be given to your situation, and you will be seen as soon as possible. After office hours, please give the office a call and follow the instructions provided. Your call will be returned as soon as possible.
If you are experiencing a serious or life-threatening emergency, please call 911 or visit the nearest emergency room.
Below are instructions for handling minor dental emergencies.
Gently clean the area around the tooth by rinsing the mouth with warm water and gently flossing to remove any particles that may be lodged in the tissue around the tooth. If the pain continues, or if the area around the affected tooth is warm, please call our office to schedule an appointment.
Apply ice to help reduce swelling and apply pressure with a clean cloth or sterile gauze to stop any bleeding. If the bleeding continues, call your physician or visit your local emergency room.
Please call our office to schedule an appointment.
Call our office right away and take these steps.
- Do not touch the tooth root, but hold the tooth by the crown and gently rinse the tooth with water.
- Place the tooth back into the socket as quickly as possible and bite down on clean gauze to hold it in place.
- If the tooth cannot be placed in the socket, put the tooth in a small container of milk or saliva and bring it with you to your appointment.
Gently rinse the area with lukewarm water and place a cold compress on the face to reduce swelling. If you can locate the piece of the broken tooth, place the piece in milk, and bring it with you to the office. If more than half of the tooth is broken off, please call us immediately.
Pediatric Dental Emergencies
During office hours, immediate attention will be given to your situation, and you will be seen as soon as possible. After office hours, please give the office a call and follow the instructions provided. Your call will be returned as soon as possible. If you are experiencing a serious or life threatening emergency, please call 911 or visit the nearest emergency room.
Below are instructions for handling minor dental emergencies.
Gently clean the area around the tooth by rinsing the mouth with warm water and gently flossing to remove any particles that may be lodged in the tissue around the tooth. If the pain continues, or if the area around the affected tooth is warm, please call our office to schedule an appointment.
Apply ice to help reduce swelling and apply pressure with a clean cloth or sterile gauze to stop any bleeding. If the bleeding continues, call your physician or visit your local emergency room.
Please call our office to schedule an appointment.
Call our office right away and take these steps.
- Do not touch the tooth root, but hold the tooth by the crown and gently rinse the tooth with water.
- Place the tooth back into the socket as quickly as possible and bite down on clean gauze to hold it in place.
- If the tooth cannot be placed in the socket, put the tooth in a small container of milk or saliva and bring it with you to your appointment.
Gently rinse the area with lukewarm water and place a cold compress on the face to reduce swelling. If you can locate the piece of the broken tooth, place the piece in milk, and bring it with you to the office. If more than half of the tooth is broken off, please call us immediately.
Orthodontic Emergencies
If you experience a breakage or loosening of any of your appliances please call our office as soon as possible. Please do not come directly to the office. By calling us first we will be able to schedule a time to see you. If you have a scheduled appointment already, please call to let us know that you need something repaired so that we may add additional time to your appointment if needed.
If you need assistance after hours, please call our office phone line and leave a message on our emergency service so that we may contact you. Please be sure to leave your name, phone number with area code, and a brief message.
Review the topics below for solutions to some common non-emergency problems:
There are two types of ligatures that may be used to attach the arch wire to the brackets. They may be tiny rubber bands or small, thin wires.
If a rubber band ligature comes off, it may be possible to put it back in place using clean tweezers.
If a wire ligature comes off, it can be removed with clean tweezers. If it is poking the mouth but is not loose, it may be possible to bend it back down away from the tissues with a Q-tip or clean pencil eraser. Let our office know about the problem so that we can decide if we need to see you before your next scheduled appointment.
Frequently Asked Questions
Simply call our office and we will make arrangements to see you for an emergency appointment as soon as possible. Keep in mind that the earlier in the day that you call, the more likely we’ll be able to schedule you for a same-day visit.
Not all loose dental implants are emergencies, but we’ll still want to see you at our office regardless. Often when an implant feels loose, it’s because the restoration attached to the implant (the denture, bridge, or crown) needs to be tightened. This only requires a quick, simple visit to our office.
When it’s the restoration attached to your implant that’s loose, your dental implant is not usually compromised and it can be saved. In the rare case that the dental implant itself is loose due to dental trauma, infection or implant failure, it can often be saved with prompt treatment, but not always. If Dr. Sreeni does not believe your implant can be fixed, it will be removed. We’ll allow the soft tissue and bone to heal, then we can usually successfully place a new implant.
While it’s rare for dental implants to fail, it does occasionally happen. Signs of dental implant failure include a loose implant, severe pain, inflammation in the tissue surrounding the implant, trouble eating, and gum recession. If you’re worried that your implant has failed, call our office as soon as possible. The sooner you get treatment, the more likely it is that we will be able to save your implant or replace it a month later while preserving the bone.
Wisdom teeth don’t typically require emergency removal, but sometimes impacted wisdom teeth can become infected, which is considered an emergency that requires urgent treatment, as infections in the teeth can easily spread to other areas of the body. If this is the case, we will schedule you for an emergency wisdom tooth extraction as soon as possible.
Signs of wisdom tooth infection include severe pain, difficulty biting and chewing, severe headaches, and jaw pain. The gums and soft tissue near your wisdom tooth will often be inflamed and swollen and you may also experience discharge and a foul odor or taste in your mouth.
The goal of dentistry is to save your natural teeth whenever possible, so if you can get a root canal to preserve your tooth, that’s the best solution. If, after talking to a general dentist or endodontist, you decide you still don’t want a root canal, we can extract your infected tooth. In most cases we can place an implant on the same day as the extraction.
Sometimes one can develop a painful swelling especially at meal times in the face below the ear or beneath the lower jaw. This could be because of a blocked salivary duct. Please call to come in the same day as often this can be managed without surgery.
Pain from sores can be unbearable limiting our ability to eat or even speak. The cause can be viral, fungal or bacterial. Stress or poor general immunity is often blamed as an instigating factor. No matter what the reason, an Oral Surgeon can correctly diagnose and treat the same.
Call 301-294-8700 for urgent dental care.