Emergency Dentistry is not routine dental treatment. Many patients confuse regular dental care with immediate care procedures. Most dentists are not interested in providing emergency care and refuse to see additional patients. It throws their schedules behind and all of the scheduled patients get mad that they have to wait. Most dentists are pretty busy and it's not uncommon to hear that someone has to wait 3 months for an appointment. Patients who need immediate care often have a hard time finding someone to see them. The goal of emergency treatment is to get someone out of dental pain or to stabilize the situation.

          Emergency Dentistry often involves partially done procedures. For example, in a normal situation most root canals are done from start to finish in a 1 hour appointment. The problem is that an emergency dentist can not do 2 procedures at the same time. There's only 1 dentist! With immediate care, the goal is to get the patient out of pain, not do all of the procedure. Instead of doing all of the root canal, the tooth can be opened, the nerves removed and the biting surface of the tooth removed so that the patient can't batter the tooth any longer.

          Emergency Dentistry often involves temporary procedures. Instead of getting a permanent restoration, temporary sedative fillings are used to protect the tooth until something can be permanently done. Unfortunately, many patients get upset (even though the dentist is fitting the patient into his schedule) about getting something temporary done and insist on getting the permanent filling done that day. This often creates a scheduling problem and provides the dentist and his patients with a bad experience.

         The dentists of the Atlanta Dental Group PC offer Emergency Dentistry to patients who are in pain and need immediate care. In most cases, a patient in pain can be seen within 2 hours. A panoramic x-ray is taken and problem focused examination is done. The Financial Manager then meets with the patient to review costs and to help solve any financial barriers to receiving necessary dental care. If you need a dentist in Atlanta, call 404-874-7428 for your appointment to see Dr. Padolsky or Dr Smith.