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> I've had emergency dental treatment in an NHS hospital in the UK for an extremely painful dental abscess - was treated first thing on a Sunday morning. Emer
by chimeracoder 8y ago
> I've had emergency dental treatment in an NHS hospital in the UK for an extremely painful dental abscess - was treated first thing on a Sunday morning.
Emergency dental care is provided in the US as well. Filling a cavity is not considered an emergency.
- jessaustin 8y agoVery few oral problems are emergent. GP's abscess would have been visible on examination for months, and certainly was uncomfortable before it was extremely painful. In many cases the first treatment is a course of antibiotics, which any USA ER could administer perfectly well.
- arethuza 8y ago"certainly was uncomfortable before it was extremely painful" Actually it wasn't - went from nothing to blinding pain as if someone threw a switch. I'd have 10-15 minutes of agony then it turned off for the same time and it repeated at that frequency all of the Saturday until a GP came out on the Saturday evening and gave me painkillers and told me to go to the emergency dental clinic the next day. It was right in the middle of my 3 years exams at University - which was a bit of bad timing!