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A dental emergency rarely arrives out of nowhere. In many cases, it is the final step in a chain of smaller problems that went unaddressed, or the result of a preventable injury that seemed unlikely until it happened. A cracked molar after biting ice, a front tooth broken during a weekend game, swelling from an infection that started as a dull ache weeks earlier, these are common stories in dental offices because the conditions that lead to them are common too.

A dental emergency rarely arrives at a convenient hour. It happens during dinner, on the soccer field, halfway through a vacation, or just after the pharmacy closes. One child chips a front tooth on the edge of the pool. An adult wakes up with a cracked molar and swelling that was not there the night before. A grandparent loses a crown while chewing bread and assumes it can wait, only to find that the exposed tooth becomes sharply sensitive by evening. Those moments