Dead Tooth! Dead Tooth! Dead Tooth!

A dead tooth is the most common cause of pain that an emergency dentist encounters. Generally, the pain can be relieved through root canal treatment, which helps to do away with the dead and rotting nerve, thereby offering relief to the patient. Emergency dentists may also resort to oral surgery to provide comfort to patients suffering from dental distress. As such, the emergency dentist must be skilled in dental extractions.

When oral surgery is performed on an emergency patient who suffers from pain due to a wisdom tooth, the patient is generally anesthetized. It is the emergency dentist who must ensure that the patient is properly anesthetized. He or she evaluates the extent of the anesthesia by making a small slit around the wisdom tooth.

After it is established that the patient is anesthetized, the incision is extended and the gum tissue is softly drawn away from the wisdom tooth; the dentist then makes the necessary extraction and releive you of the pain.

That said, extraction is the last resort and generally a RCT- Root Canal Treatment is performed, to get rid of the dead tooth.