Emergency dentist help

[Noname99]

Any able to DM me details of any private dental practices in the country doing emergency dental work? NHS hub is useless just offering antibiotics (for no infection) and painkillers and will only do an extraction if they do deign to see you. I want someone to fix the tooth not take it out.

There was a thread on here a few days ago where someone had found a dentist who will actually treat patients but I can find it.

Pain is unbearable and god know what damage nearly a months worth of co- codamol/paracetamol/ibuprofen cocktail is doing.

Utterly utterly pissed off with the unrelenting uselessness of the NHS and Govt; every other damn country can manage to provide dental services but not the uk!

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/coronavirus/3918266-when-will-dentists-reopen?watched=1&msgid=96912118#96912118

I spoke to my dentist yesterday. What is happening is that you have to call your own dentist and get him/her to refer you to one of the dental hubs. Make a big fuss. Say you are in pain, there may be swelling, you can't sleep, this is not endurable.

The only thing the hubs are mostly doing tho are extractions. Apparently fillings/root canal etc are all using aerosols which are considered a risk. I don't know if this is universal but certainly one of the things my dentist was annoyed with is that he thinks teeth have been removed which could have been saved if they were allowed to use the normal equipment.

Yes please do as the previous poster suggested. Call your own dentist' and tell them over the counter pain relief is not working, you're not sleeping there's swelling and they will refer you. I know you don't want an extraction but if you have been in that much pain for so long it might be the best outcome for now. You always get a implant or bridge later.
So sorry you're suffering.

I don't think you'll have an option for anything except extraction. I've broken a tooth and spoken to my dentist. They can give pain relief if I need it but if it gets too bad, they won't do anything except take it out. Anything else is too high risk.

Some private dentists are now open.

Please don't lose a tooth if you can afford to see one. The op on the other thread has an appt.

Thank you GabriellaMontez for linking other thread. Fingers crossed they can send me the details.

There is something that dentists can do to work safely with COVID .... they are doing it in virtually every single European country whilst having a lower death rate than the uk. I don’t know whether it’s the NHS; the Govt; public health England or British dental association (or whatever they are called) who are ensuring they don’t, but every other country in the europe is managing it.