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Emergencies

Dental Emergency
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Dental Emergencies:

Some examples of dental emergencies are sudden throbbing pain from a tooth or gums, or a cracked tooth or crown just before an important event. Dental emergencies happen and they always seem to happen at the wrong time.

In my practice and in life I try to treat people the way I would want to be treated. What if one of my daughters or my wife had a dental emergency, what I had a dental emergency how would I want to feel? What would I want people to tell me?

I would want to feel valued, I’d want someone to tell me that they were going to take care of me and that it is going to be okay and really mean it. I would want someone to let me know that they are going to do a good job.

On this web page I have highlighted a few examples on dental emergencies that I have treated in my practice.

A dental emergency can be

A sudden onset of pain from a tooth.
A cracked tooth, just before an important event.
A sudden throbbing pain that couldn't have happened at a worse time.

Below are a few examples of dental emergencies I treated in my practice.

Broken tooth repaired with a same-day crown and teeth whitening

Problem:

Cracked front tooth while traveling

Goal:

Restore a broken tooth
Brighten the smile

Fix:

Teeth whitening
CAD/CAM design to create a ceramic crown

Result:

Symmetrical shape of porcelain
Life-like appearance and color match
Brighter smile after teeth whitening

Broken tooth repaired with a same-day crown and teeth whitening

Before and after

Cosmetic emergency, chipped front tooth

Problem:

Chipped right front tooth
Worn front teeth from grinding

Goal:

Correct a chipped tooth
Restore symmetry in the smile

Fix:

Composite bonding
Esthetic smoothing

$A fractured front tooth, chipping and wear from teeth grinding, and general asymmetry$

Before and after

Fractured crown and tooth, repaired with a same-day crown

Problem:

A broken crown done by another dentist

Goal:

New crown to match front right tooth

Fix:

CAD/CAM design to create a new crown

Result:

Symmetrical shade of porcelain
Life-like appearance and color match

Fractured crown and tooth, repaired with a same-day crown

Before and after

Broken veneer repaired with same-day veneer

I often repair broken veneers done at other offices.
This outlines my workflow to repair a veneer in 1 visit.

The scanned image of the patient's teeth after I removed the broken veneer

The initial CAD design of the new veneer. Changes were still made before milling

The milled porcelain before placement in the furnace

Ceramic paint is used to stain the porcelain to match her existing veneers. In this case, grey and blue were painted onto bleach-colored porcelain to match the shade exactly

Broken veneer repaired with same-day veneer

The new veneer matches the existing set. This photo was taken immediately after bonding; the patient's gums are irritated but will be normal by the next day.

Broken crown repaired with same-day crown

Emergency cosmetic dentistry.
This outlines my workflow to repair a crown in 1 visit.

Cracked crown

CAD/CAM design for new crown

The CAD CAM crown being milled out of a ceramic block

Milled porcelain crown, still in purple phase

The crown is slightly too light and needs to be stained a little darker to match her other teeth

Finished and bonded into place

Before and after

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Dr. Spencer Hoyt obtained his Doctor of Dental Surgery degree and followed his Residency/ Advanced Education in General Dentistry from the world-renowned University of the Pacific School of Dentistry in San Francisco, CA. He established Fort Worth Dental Arts in 2011 to see dentistry done differently as he was passionate about providing quality dental care to his community.

Dr. Hoyt is an active member of the American Dental Association, Texas Dental Association, American Academy of Cosmetic Dentistry, CEREC Doctors, and Spear Education. He was voted Best Dentist' 2019, 2020, 2021 by Fort Worth Weekly.