After you break your tooth, you should make a trip to the dentist’s office your priority. An injury that is severe enough to damage your enamel should not be taken lightly. This can affect your appearance and bite function, and in time you can develop an infection! Dr. Browne wants patients to know that they have access to emergency dental services when this or other issues occur. At our Prairie Village, KS dentist’s office, we can act quickly to evaluate the tooth, determine how severe the problem is, and recommend the right care. Remember that trying to ignore a problem or delay treatment can have unwelcome consequences that increase your risk for losing the injured tooth! (more…)

When tooth pain stops you from biting and chewing any foods that provide meaningful resistance, you should take the matter up with your dentist. That concentrated pain or sensitivity can stem from an infection, and your problems can grow worse if you wait too long to arrange restorative dental treatment! Our Prairie Village, KS dentist’s office is prepared to help when you need to seek urgent treatment for dental pain affecting your bite function. After a review of the problem tooth, or problem teeth, we can inform you of the problem and what treating it will require. Even if the problem is advanced, we can recommend care that will improve your bite while preserving your appearance. (more…)

A dislodged tooth can send you straight to the dentist’s office for restorative dental care. Patients at our Prairie Village, KS dentist’s office can arrange emergency dental work in the event that they lose a tooth or suffer another form of trauma affecting their smile. It is possible for treatment to save the lost tooth and preserve a person’s full smile. With that said, the time it takes you to schedule treatment, and the care you put into handling the dislodged tooth, can affect your chances of having it put back in place. Even if the tooth cannot be saved, we can still make your smile complete against by providing prosthetic dental work. (more…)

In the event that you develop severe tooth pain, you can find it hard to continue enduring your discomfort while you wait for a dental appointment. Fortunately, when you have an issue like this, you can let our Prairie Village, KS dentist’s office know and arrange an emergency appointment to discuss your oral health. At that visit, Dr. Browne can determine why you are experiencing so much pain before recommending the appropriate restorative dental treatment. Waiting on treatment can be a bad idea even if you feel that you can tolerate the pain for a longer period of time. That discomfort could be connected to an issue with an advanced infection, one that will eventually make it necessary to extract the tooth if care is not provided! (more…)

If you find yourself in a situation where you need to see a dentist as soon as possible, will you know how to respond? While it can be hard to focus when you have the distraction of a painful or broken tooth, you should know that your Prairie Village, KS dentist is prepared to help you on short notice. Because our practice is capable of meeting with patients and addressing their needs with little advance notice, we can help you quickly deal with something that affects your appearance and oral health. Access to prompt care means more than just a faster treatment for an injury that looks unsightly. We can make sure that a tooth is fully treated before complications occur that worsen your oral health. (more…)

Dental emergencies happen, which is why you should know what to do in the event one affects you or a loved one. Our Prairie Village, KS dentist’s office can make a painful and scary situation involving your oral health easier by bringing you in for an emergency dental procedure. This visit’s immediate focus will be on addressing your pain and restoring your oral health. With that said, we can make sure that the work we do to restore your dental well-being also gives you back confidence in your smile! This is the case even when your treatment makes the extraction and replacement of a tooth necessary. (more…)

A tooth injury can be embarrassing as well as painful, as a visibly broken or lost tooth can be a big problem for your appearance. Because of this, people who suffer physical dental trauma can wonder how this experience might permanently change the way they look in addition to hurting their oral health. At our Prairie Village, KS dentist’s office, we are ready to see individuals who experience dental injuries on short notice. Our goal during your appointment is to make sure your injured tooth is restored. With that said, we can take care to provide work that also gives your confident, attractive smile back to you! (more…)

Tooth decay is a problem that your dentist can identify at a routine dental exam. When the problem is caught in the course of a preventive visit, it can be addressed before you even start to experience discomfort. This is one of many reasons you should make a point to regularly schedule dental care. So what happens if you are not attending these exams regularly? If a cavity forms and is not treated in time, it can grow serious enough to cause an infection. When this happens, you can start to struggle with issues like swelling, sensitivity, and pain! If you have significant discomfort, or if you are concerned that the tooth is vulnerable to being lost, you can reach out to your Prairie Village, KS dentist to schedule care. We do offer emergency dental appointments in situations where a problem feels too serious to ignore. (more…)