As comprehensive oral care becomes more difficult for young adults to afford, more and more of them are turning to emergency rooms for dental treatments, a new study shows. The total number of dental ...

The study examined county-level rates of emergency room visits for nontraumatic dental conditions in 29 states in 2010. They found that an adequate supply of dental providers was associated with lower ...

More than 2 percent of all emergency department visits are now related to nontraumatic dental conditions, according to a study by researchers at Stanford University, the University of California-San ...

Generally, it is advisable to avoid going to the emergency room (ER) for dental pain if possible. This is because the ER will usually consist of emergency physicians and not dentists. In most cases, ...

LOUISVILLE, Ky. -- What started as a toothache from a lost filling became a raging infection that landed Christopher Smith in the University of Louisville Hospital emergency room, then in intensive ...

In a decade, a dental clinic is Martinsville has provided $8 million in dental care to the Martinsville area. Leaders say that equals 37,000 patients who have received care. Health leaders say because ...

Access to dental care by low-income Americans has become the exception, rather than the rule, as fewer dentists accept Medicaid, according to a new study. More than 2 percent of all emergency ...