Your Toothache Doesn’t Care if Your Are on Vacation At On Demand Dentist, we see a lot of patients who get a toothache while on vacation in San Diego. Since we are open nights and weekends, we are a logical choice for travelers with a toothache. But what should you do when you’re traveling for [...]
Creative Ways to Get the Money Needed for Your Emergency Dental Work Your dental care needs and your budget requirements don’t always line up. But that doesn’t mean that your toothache will simply go away until you have more money in your pocket. So how do you pay for your dental care when you don’t [...]
Emergency Toothache on the Weekend You wake up on a Saturday morning and your tooth is killing you. You call your dentist and leave a message, which doesn’t get returned because it’s a Saturday. You call another office and they call you back, but only to say that they can’t see you until Monday, but [...]
Why Does My Child Have a Cavity? If your toddler has a toothache, he or she most likely has a cavity. “But we don’t even eat sugar at our house! How does he have a cavity?” Great question! The fact is, most cavities in children aren’t caused by soda and candy (although soda and candy [...]
You wake up on a Saturday morning and your tooth hurts. You look in the mirror to see the gums below a broken tooth are swollen. Maybe there’s a little puss coming out. The more you look at it the more obvious it becomes: you have an infection. But… it’s Saturday morning. Most dentists are [...]
Can I Wait To Get My Tooth Pulled if I Have an Infection?
That’s a pretty common question we get on a Saturday afternoon at our emergency dental clinic in San Diego. Since we are one of only a few San Diego emergency dentists that are open on the weekend, we get a lot of calls with questions and concerns. Most of the time, someone wants to know if they should come see us and have it taken care of on a Saturday or if they can wait to see their regular dentist on Monday. It’s a good question.
When you get a toothache, you want quality care from an emergency dentist who is available when you need him or her most. You want an emergency dentist that will drop what he is doing to help you right away. You want an emergency dentist who is fair, gentle, and compassionate in your time of need.
The last thing you want is to be “nickled and dimed” when you are in pain at your emergency dentist.
Here are some questions you can ask to make sure that the emergency dentist you choose is the right fit for you:
Where Can You Go For Affordable Wisdom Tooth Extractions in San Diego? Wisdom teeth can cause people a lot of pain and grief… and expense. Most people don’t have enough room in their mouth for the wisdom teeth to come in straight, which results in he teeth coming in crooked, getting implacted, causing infections, decay, [...]
At On Demand Dentist, we do whatever we can to make you comfortable and and make sure we get you out of pain. In some cases, that includes stitches, or sutures, to ensure proper healing and minimize the possibility of infection. Each patient is evaluated on a case-by-case basis to determine if sutures are the [...]
Have you ever asked yourself “How do I know if my tooth is infected?” It can often be easier to find out than you think. If you have a toothache and it gets worse when you bite down, there is a good chance your tooth is infected or you have an abscess. If you have [...]