What Happens If You Ignore a Dental Emergency?
A dental emergency has a way of testing people’s judgment. At first, the problem can seem small enough to postpone. A chipped tooth does not always hurt right away. A swollen gum might settle down by morning. A lost filling can feel inconvenient more than urgent. Yet in practice, the cases that turn serious often start with exactly that kind of hesitation. Teeth and the tissues around them do not heal like a scraped knee. Once a tooth is cracked, infected, or dislod