Emergency Treatment at Dam Street Dental Practice

​If an emergency arises outside of normal surgery hours please telephone NHS DIRECT on 111 where the urgency of your problem will be assessed and further advice will be given.
What Counts as a Dental Emergency?
Non Urgent
Treat at home, or call the practice on 01543 264630 for further advice
  • Loose or lost crowns, bridges or veneers.
  • Broken, rubbing or loose dentures
  • Bleeding gums.
  • Broken, lose or lost fillings
  • Chipped teeth with no pain
  • Loose orthodontic wires
Urgent
Call us on 01543 264630 for advice (out of normal hours, call 111)
  • Facial swelling extending to eye or neck.
  • Bleeding following an extraction that does not stop after 20 mins solid pressure with gauze/clean hankie. A small amount of oozing is normal, just like if you had a grazed knee.
  • Bleeding due to trauma.
  • Trauma resulting in a tooth being knocked out of the socket, or a large fracture resulting from trauma and causing severe pain.
  • Significant toothache preventing sleep or eating, associated with significant swelling, or fever that cannot be managed with painkillers.

Straight to Hospital A&E
  • Facial swelling affecting vision or breathing preventing mouth opening more than 2 fingers width.
  • Trauma causing loss of consciousness, double vision or vomiting.
 
For Denplan patients, please telephone the surgery on 01543 264630 and follow the advice given on the recorded message.