What Can Be Done at Home Until You Reach the Clinic
The aim is not to treat at home but to arrive without making things worse.
What you can do before setting out
- Apply cold to the outside of the cheek through a thin cloth
- Rinse gently with warm salty water; do not force it
- Raise the head slightly and avoid lying flat on the painful side
- Keep a lost filling, crown or fragment in a clean container
- For bleeding, press with clean gauze for fifteen minutes without lifting
- Avoid very hot or cold food and chewing on that side
- Take a list of your medicines and your ID with you
Common steps that make things worse
Pressing an aspirin tablet onto the aching tooth or the gum is a common habit; it does not relieve the pain, leaves a chemical burn where it touches and clouds the picture at examination. Applying heat over a swelling likewise helps infection spread.
Trying to burst a gum blister with a needle or similar object is also risky. Even if the release brings brief relief, the source remains and infection can be carried into deeper tissue. Where drainage is needed it is done under sterile conditions — and it can be done tonight.
When waiting is not appropriate
In some situations every minute at home is a loss. For a permanent tooth knocked completely out, the odds are measured in minutes: hold it by the crown, never the root, carry it in milk or the patient's own saliva and come without delay.
Swelling spreading towards the eye or neck, fever, difficulty swallowing or breathing, or an inability to open the mouth call for a hospital emergency department before a dental clinic. For everything else — pain, abscess, fracture and bleeding — you can come to us at night.
Before You Arrive from Ayanoglu: What to Do in the First Hour
What you can do before setting out from Ayanoglu does not replace treatment, but it keeps the situation from worsening and buys you time.
Before leaving Ayanoglu
What you should do before setting out from Ayanoglu depends on your complaint, and detailed first-aid steps for each are on the relevant page. On the way from Emergency in Ayanoglu, using the wrong measure can make things worse, so it matters which page you read — applying heat to swelling spreads the infection, and placing a painkiller tablet on the tooth burns the gum.
- Toothache
- Dental abscess and facial swelling
- A broken or cracked tooth
- A knocked-out tooth
- Bleeding after an extraction
What calling achieves for Ayanoglu
Calling as you set out from Ayanoglu does two things: you receive first-aid guidance suited to your situation, and the radiograph and surgery are prepared while you travel. For Emergency in Ayanoglu: for patients coming from across Kepez, this arrangement noticeably shortens the wait.
What an Emergency Visit Covers for a Patient from Ayanoglu
For a patient attending as an emergency from Ayanoglu, the aim is to stop the pain and the infection; definitive work is left to a planned appointment.
Completed the same night for Ayanoglu
Examination and a radiograph, opening the canal to release pressure, draining an abscess, stopping bleeding, temporarily sealing a broken tooth, splinting a loose tooth and adjusting a poking orthodontic wire are all completed the same night for a patient from Ayanoglu as well.
Left to a later visit for Ayanoglu
For a patient from Emergency in Ayanoglu, completing the root filling, making a crown or onlay, the permanent restoration and the implant and prosthetic stages are done at planned appointments. If you are coming from Ayanoglu, these are combined according to your journey and given to you in writing, so you do not have to travel from Kepez repeatedly.
