What You Can Do at Home and on the Road from Tekirova
The time spent travelling can be turned to your advantage with a few right steps.
Steps that genuinely ease pain on the way
- Keep your head above your body; avoid lying flat
- If there is swelling, apply cold outside the cheek
- Do not chew on the painful side or lie on it
- Avoid very hot and very cold drinks
- Rinse gently with warm salt water; do not gargle hard
- For bleeding, apply pressure by biting on gauze
- Bring the fragment, crown or denture with you
What not to do on the way
Some common home remedies make things worse. Placing aspirin or another tablet on a painful tooth does not relieve it — it causes a chemical burn where it touches the gum and complicates treatment. Applying a hot towel or hot water bottle to a swollen cheek is also wrong: heat increases blood flow and helps the infection spread.
Trying to pierce an abscess with a needle or squeeze it out can push infection deeper. Rinsing with alcohol and forcing sharp objects between the teeth damage the tissue. None of this is necessary — drainage is done safely at the clinic.
Using painkillers sensibly
A painkiller taken before setting out can make the journey easier, but a few points matter. Do not exceed the dose or stack different drugs at short intervals. Tell us on the phone about any allergy, stomach problem, kidney or liver disease, or regular medication.
Note the name of the drug and the time you took it: the local anaesthetic used at the clinic and the advice afterwards are adjusted accordingly. Relief from a painkiller does not mean the problem has passed — it returns as the drug wears off, so do not turn back.
Before You Arrive from Tekirova: What to Do in the First Hour
What you can do before setting out from Tekirova does not replace treatment, but it keeps the situation from worsening and buys you time.
Before leaving Tekirova
What you should do before setting out from Tekirova depends on your complaint, and detailed first-aid steps for each are on the relevant page. On the way from Emergency in Tekirova, 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 Tekirova
Calling as you set out from Tekirova 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 Kemer, this arrangement noticeably shortens the wait.
What an Emergency Visit Covers for a Patient from Tekirova
For a patient attending as an emergency from Tekirova, the aim is to stop the pain and the infection; definitive work is left to a planned appointment.
Completed the same night for Tekirova
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 Tekirova as well.
Left to a later visit for Tekirova
For a patient from Emergency in Tekirova, 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 Tekirova, these are combined according to your journey and given to you in writing, so you do not have to travel from Kemer repeatedly.
