Other urgent dental care

• Extensive dental caries or defective restorations causing pain

• Manage with interim restorative techniques when possible (silver diamine fluoride, glass ionomers)

• Suture removal

• Denture adjustment on radiation/oncology patients

• Denture adjustments or repairs when functions impeded

• Replacing temporary filling on endo access openings in patients experiencing pain

• Snipping or adjustments of an orthodontic wire or appliances piercing or ulcerating the oral mucosa

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