Emergency dental care

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Not all conditions that require immediate dental care are covered by emergency dental care.

Conditions for which the patient needs urgent and emergency care:

dental trauma;
extensive swelling in the maxillofacial area;
difficulty opening the mouth;
complicated eruption of the wisdom tooth;
wound inflammation after tooth extraction;
acute salivary gland diseases;
acute temporomandibular diseases.

In the case of other conditions requiring emergency care, paid services are provided upon an agreement with the attending physician.

All adults have the right to free emergency dental care, whether or not they have health insurance. Free emergency dental care is provided if the postponement or non-provision of care could result in the death or permanent damage to the health of the person in need. Emergency care is provided in case of an emergency that requires the extraction of a tooth or the opening of an abscess. The dentist decides whether the condition requires emergency dental care.

In order to receive emergency dental care, you must turn to a dentist who has entered into a contract with the Health Insurance Fund because the Health Insurance Fund pays only its contract partners for the services provided to both insured and uninsured adults.

Services provided in emergency dental care:

Patient examination, consultation
Topical anaesthesia (mucosal anaesthesia)
Local injection anaesthesia
Removal of a single rooted tooth
Removal of a multi-rooted tooth
Removal of a deeply broken tooth or a broken tooth
Opening and treating of an abscess
Trauma wound dressing
Replacing a loose tooth
Stopping the bleeding with a suture
Post-surgery follow-up
Tooth or implant removal (with partial bone removal)
X-ray of a tooth
X-ray of the whole mouth

Emergency dental care

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