Blog: Emergency Dentistry

Dental emergencies can be both painful and frightening. Knowing what to do and where to go can make all the difference. Fortunately for patients in Glendale, CA, the Brush and Smile team, led by Dr. Lucio H. Kim, offers exceptional emergency dental care to help you manage and overcome these unexpected and unnerving challenges.

What Are Some Common Dental Emergencies?

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Dental emergencies are scary, so it’s essential that you have the knowledge to understand what is going on and what to do if you or a loved one needs emergency dental care. Fortunately, the expert dental team at Lucio H. Kim, DDS, can help you in your time of need and get you back to your busy life. However, ...

Happy February!
As there is a light at the end of this long COVID tunnel, stay at home orders still loom over Los Angeles. The numbers keep rising with hospitals being overwhelmed.  And this leads to a lot of not wanting to venture out..and with good reason!
But please DO NOT let that nagging feeling in your tooth or gums ...

The phrase "you need a root canal" is enough to send people into a cold sweat with flashbacks of the dentally iconic movie, marathon man. But nothing could be farther from the truth! Root canals have come a long way since Dustin Hoffman was forced to get one in 1976. Today they are a safe, and often necessary procedure that ...

During these difficult times, we want to remind everyone that we are still open for dental emergencies and can see you right away if you experience a severe dental injury. 

When you hurt a tooth or part of your mouth, you shouldn’t wait to contact your Glendale, CA dentist. Dental emergencies ...

No one likes emergencies. Everyone likes to be able to plan their life and their finances around some sort of predictable schedule. Emergencies throw everything into disarray and regular life gets put on hold and that money that you were saving up for that certain something?  Yep. Even that’s put on hold bc of the unexpected expense. According to ...

Although we can’t always prevent accidents, it’s worth thinking about how you can avoid a dental emergency. Knowing where you can get emergency dentistry in Glendale, CA, is a good idea, too. But how can you prepare not to have a dental emergency?

Here are a few tips to keep your teeth and gums healthy and lower your chances of ...

Do you know whether your dentist provides care outside of normal business hours? Being prepared for a dental emergency can give you peace of mind and a better outcome, should you need to take quick action. When you know you have a resource for emergency dentistry in Glendale, CA, you rest a little easier about an unexpected toothache or ...

You've been feeling a little bit sensitive in a tooth for the past couple weeks. It's been coming and going. Not a big deal. But now it's getting a little more frequent and now you're avoiding chewing on that area and it's getting sensitive with even warm drinks now. All of a sudden you wake up in the middle of ...

We've all had it happen: You are walking normally when all of a sudden the curb jumps up and makes you trip and fall. You're playing with your kid and that swing comes out of nowhere to smack you in the face. You are brunching with friends and you bite into a fork or you bite into something hard in ...

There’s no question that a dental emergency can turn your life upside down. It can seem that one moment everything’s going along fine, then suddenly that little twinge you’ve been feeling turns into a full-blown toothache.

If this has happened to you, you know that your first and only priority was to get relief from the pain and the worry that ...