Partner With Urgent Dental Care®

Emergency dental coverage that protects your patients and supports your practice.

Urgent Dental Care® provides emergency‑only dental services designed to support practices that cannot offer after‑hours, weekend, or holiday coverage. Since 2017, our role has been simple: deliver immediate care when your office is closed and return your patients to you for follow‑up treatment.

We are not a full‑service provider. We do not compete for long‑term patients. We act as an extension of your practice.

Support for
Your Practice

As a dental professional, you understand how unpredictable emergencies can be. When urgent cases arise outside your regular hours, we help you maintain continuity of care while protecting your patient relationships.
Here is how we support your practice:

What Constitutes a Dental Emergency?

The ADA recognizes that state governments and state dental associations may be best positioned to recommend to the dentists in their regions the amount of time to keep their offices closed to all but emergency care. This is fluid situation and those closest to the issue may best understand the local challenges being faced.

DENTAL EMERGENCY

Dental emergencies

Are potentially life threatening and require immediate treatment to stop ongoing tissue bleeding, alleviate severe pain or infection, and include:

• Uncontrolled bleeding
• Cellulitis or a diffuse soft tissue bacterial infection with intra-oral or extra-oral swelling that potentially compromise the patient’s airway
• Trauma involving facial bones, potenti

Urgent dental care

Focuses on the management of conditions that require immediate attention to relieve severe pain and/or risk of infection and to alleviate the urden on hospital emergency departments hese should e treated as minimally invasively as possible. 

Severe dental pain from pulpal inflammation
Pericoronitis or third-molar pain
Surgical post-operative osteitis, dry socet dressing changes bscess, or localized bacterial infection resulting in locali ed pain and swelling
Tooth fracture resulting in pain or causing soft tissue trauma
Dental trauma with avulsion luxation
Dental treatment required prior to critical medical procedures
Final crownbridge cementation if the temporary restoration is lost, broen or causing gingival irritation
Biopsy of abnormal tissue

Other urgent dental care

Extensive dental caries or defective restorations causing pain
Manage with interim restorative techniques when possible (silver diamine fluoride, glass ionomers)
Suture removal
Denture adustment on radiation / oncology patients
Denture adustments or repairs when function impeded
Replacing temporary filling on endo access openings in patients experiencing pain
Snipping or adustment of an orthodontic wire or appliances piercing or ulcerating the oral mucosa