Talk:Dental emergency

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In this respect, a dental emergency is not usually a type of medical emergency, since there is only rarely a threat to life. ((citation needed))

Entire treatment section ((citation needed))

examples subheading can be divided up further with each example as its own sub category with further information and citations explaining each.

Ajeverett (talk) 02:20, 2 December 2013 (UTC)

Could add descriptions of different dental emergencies

Kaybhat (talk) 02:24, 2 December 2013 (UTC)


 * My bad. I put in these unreferenced statements, but they replaced inaccurate unreferenced statements before. I am 100% cofident of statement: "Dental emergencies are rarely a threat to life, limb or sight" (the most widely used definition of a medical emergency), unless we are talking Ludwig's angina or cavernous sinus thrombosis something but these are rare. Agree need a source. Lesion  ( talk ) 05:17, 2 December 2013 (UTC)

RubysummersWe were thinking of rearranging this page and changing the subheadings and adding some more information, possible headings include: - Pain - Acute oral medical and surgical conditions - Restorative dental emergencies - Trauma


 * Sounds good. Consider also adding some other categories of "dental emergency". Some people who attend for dental emergency appointments are not in any pain, or have greatly exaggerated their symptoms to get an early appointment. Many people who attend have simply a cosmetic concern, e.g. a crown at the front of their mouth has fallen out and they are ashamed to be seen with a gap. Others have no pain but have lost a crown/bridge/filling on a back tooth and hence are unwilling to eat on that side for fear of worsening the situation.


 * See also: Toothache. Some of the sources there might be transferable to this article. Lesion  ( talk ) 15:00, 2 February 2014 (UTC)

Thank you, I didn't even consider this. Rubysummers —Preceding undated comment added 02:10, 8 February 2014 (UTC)

Kaybhat Continuing from what Rubysummers suggested, I would like to add some of the following topics under the sub-heading of acute oral medical and surgical condition - post-extraction pain and infection, facial swellings, ulcerations, infections and salivary gland stones.

Rubysummers For the pain section, I would like to be more specific in terms of pupal pain and peri reticular pain, I'm thinking of adding a table for the classification of pulp status and including - periodical abscess, periodontal abscess and apical periodontitis under peri reticular pain. I would also like to add under non odontogenic pain - maxillary sinus origin, TMD, Neuromuscular origin, Neuromuscular origin, Neurovascular origin, Neuropathic origin, Psychogenic origin, Other uncommon causes of non-odontogenic pain. I am still deciding what to include under management- open to ideas. Let me know of any objections/changes. — Preceding undated comment added 10:23, 25 March 2014 (UTC)

Kaybhat Clinical management of any dental emergency is dependent upon the precise cause of the emergency and the general state of the patient. Therefore, I feel like the treatment section will have to be changed and made specific to each sub-heading. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Kaybhat (talk • contribs) 22:38, 1 April 2014 (UTC)

Kaybhat I was thinking that maybe we could add a separate topic on dental emergencies due to LA complications to this page. — Preceding undated comment added 00:02, 14 May 2014 (UTC)

Kaybhat Rubysummers, I really like the table you have created in the pain section. It easy to read through and makes the concepts clear and easy to compare. — Preceding undated comment added 08:52, 21 May 2014 (UTC)

Advice for student editors
Please review the following guidelines for writing medical content on Wikipedia:


 * WP:MEDMOS - gives recommended sections etc.
 * WP:MEDRS - gives guidance about suitable sources.

Thank you. Lesion ( talk ) 07:11, 3 December 2013 (UTC)

Good source

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 * An open access paper about dental emergencies maybe useful.  Lesion  21:26, 18 April 2014 (UTC)

Nice work on the article
To the students editing the article. Nice work!!! Thank you very much. If you need any info, help or pictures feel free to hit me up on my talk page. All the best. Ian Furst (talk) 02:27, 11 April 2014 (UTC)

Thank you for your kind words Ian Furst. Kaybhat — Preceding undated comment added 06:05, 11 April 2014 (UTC)

Thank you Ian Furst. Rubysummers (talk) 06:19, 11 April 2014 (UTC)

Book chapter on dental emergencies
Not sure what textbook it is from, but found this:

http://www.exodontia.info/files/Chapter_5_-_Dental_Emergencies.pdf — Preceding unsigned comment added by 92.40.87.136 (talk) 16:29, 2 June 2014 (UTC)