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Dr Gill’s dental clinic is located at Crowfoot Circle in Calgary, Alberta. We cater to emergency patients till 10PM on weekdays and during day hours on weekends.

But in a situation of a dental emergency when you don’t have a dentist available to look at you, here is some information that will help you get through the night.

First of all, if you have a toothache, you have a dental problem. Do not wait before going to a dentist, take an appointment and go right away. The longer you wait, the worse the pain will get and chances are that you will have to spend the  night with the tootache getting worse every minute.

We get a lot of patients who call us at  night and have waited for hours before they called. Remember one thing: a toothache, means a problem and needs to be looked at by a dentist. Toothache doesn’t disappear on its own.

If you have a tootache, here are some causes:

• You may have something stuck between your teeth
• A filling or a crown could have come out
• Your gums are infected
• Your teeth have been infected
• You cracked a tooth
• You may have a cavity sitting there long enough and now it is making the nerve exposed
• You may have eaten something that made your sensitive teeth give up and start aching
• Anything other than the above mentioned factors

In any of these situations, you need a dentist to look at your problem and take care of it. If your gums or roots have been infected, the sooner you seek help from a dentist, the better are the chances of a less painful treatment. Even though a dentist freezes / numbs your teeth, it takes more than just one shot to freeze an infected tooth. So the bottom line is, your tooth aches, call the dentist right away and take an appointment.

If the pain started in the middle of the night and you cant get a hold of a dentist, examine yourself. Based on the severity of the pain you should be able to get a fair idea of what is the cause.

If the pain is unbearable, you probably have an infection and need to take antibiotics right away. Antibiotics are prescribed  by a dentist so call your dentist right now. You are more than welcome to call us at any time at the number on the home page of the site.

Once you take a medicine, it is very important that you understand that these medicines can ONLY give you a temporary relief. Take the medicine only to see your dentist at a convenient time and do take an appointment right away.

Some of the “off the counter” medicines are paracetamol, Ibuprofin, etc. though it is highly recommended that you call a dentist and take a personal recommendation.

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