What You Can Do at Home and on the Way
Time on a long road is well spent if the first aid is correct.
What genuinely helps with pain
Keeping your head slightly raised rather than flat reduces the pressure that builds when lying down, so do not recline the seat fully on the way. A gentle rinse with warm salt water clears debris and soothes. Cold applied outside the cheek eases both pain and swelling.
Avoid very hot and very cold foods and anything hard or sticky, and do not chew on that side. If you regularly take a painkiller you may take it as usual, but do not increase the dose yourself, and note the time — we need to know.
First steps for fractures, lost fillings and bleeding
If a tooth breaks, keep the fragment and bring it in milk or saline. If a sharp edge is cutting the tongue or cheek, orthodontic wax or a piece of clean chewing gum can cover it temporarily. With a lost filling or crown, avoid that side and do not try to cement it yourself.
For bleeding, place folded clean gauze and bite continuously; changing it often prevents a clot forming. Rinsing, spitting and drinking through a straw dislodge the clot. Hold a knocked-out tooth by the crown, never scrub the root, and carry it in milk.
What not to do
- Applying heat to the cheek or the painful area
- Placing aspirin or a similar tablet directly on the gum
- Burning the tissue with cologne, alcohol or vinegar
- Trying to lance a swelling or gum bump with a needle
- Taking left-over antibiotics on your own decision
- Rinsing, spitting or using a straw while bleeding
- Washing a knocked-out tooth and wrapping it in a dry tissue
Before You Arrive from Finike: What to Do in the First Hour
What you can do before setting out from Finike does not replace treatment, but it keeps the situation from worsening and buys you time.
Before leaving Finike
What you should do before setting out from Finike depends on your complaint, and detailed first-aid steps for each are on the relevant page. On the way from Emergency in Finike, 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 Finike
Calling as you set out from Finike does two things: you receive first-aid guidance suited to your situation, and the radiograph and surgery are prepared while you travel. For patients coming from across Finike, this arrangement noticeably shortens the wait.
What an Emergency Visit Covers for a Patient from Finike
For a patient attending as an emergency from Finike, the aim is to stop the pain and the infection; definitive work is left to a planned appointment.
Completed the same night for Finike
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 Finike as well.
Left to a later visit for Finike
For a patient from Emergency in Finike, 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 Finike, these are combined according to your journey and given to you in writing, so you do not have to travel from Finike repeatedly.
