Weekend and Holiday Access to Emergency Dental Care from Kum
On holidays most of the time lost goes into finding somewhere open, not into treatment.
How the arrangement works on holidays
Our arrangement is fixed: there is no difference between weekdays, weekends, public holidays and religious holidays. Saturday night and Tuesday afternoon are the same — examination, radiographs, root canal treatment, abscess drainage and urgent extraction where required.
In practice this means you can plan. If the pain began on the first day of a holiday there is no reason to wait for it to end. Equally, a tooth broken on Saturday evening need not wait for Monday: waiting usually enlarges the work required.
The complaints seen most on holidays
- Teeth broken on nuts and shells, and lost fillings
- Crowns and bridges pulled off by sticky sweets
- Pain of several days that becomes unbearable on the holiday
- Swelling spreading over the cheek, tenderness on biting
- Inflammation around an impacted wisdom tooth
- A broken or ill-fitting removable denture
- Dental injuries in children after play and falls
Do not postpone sensitivity noticed before a holiday
Mild sensitivity noticed before a long holiday is often the first sign of a process already under way. When a brief twinge from cold turns into throbbing that lingers with heat, the pulp is likely to be involved and the picture rarely reverses.
Changed eating habits over a holiday, more hard and sticky food and disrupted sleep all speed this up. Having sensitivity looked at before the holiday is far easier than needing extensive treatment in the middle of it.
Before You Arrive from Kum: What to Do in the First Hour
What you can do before setting out from Kum does not replace treatment, but it keeps the situation from worsening and buys you time.
Before leaving Kum
What you should do before setting out from Kum depends on your complaint, and detailed first-aid steps for each are on the relevant page. On the way from Emergency in Kum, 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 Kum
Calling as you set out from Kum 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 Manavgat, this arrangement noticeably shortens the wait.
What an Emergency Visit Covers for a Patient from Kum
For a patient attending as an emergency from Kum, the aim is to stop the pain and the infection; definitive work is left to a planned appointment.
Completed the same night for Kum
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 Kum as well.
Left to a later visit for Kum
For a patient from Emergency in Kum, 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 Kum, these are combined according to your journey and given to you in writing, so you do not have to travel from Manavgat repeatedly.
