Most of the U.S. hospitals are not equipped to offer Dental Treatments to patients in their emergency room facilities. Although, there is a well documented demand for such dental emergency service in the hospitals, the health insurance companies don’t view the Dental Service as a lucrative profit center. Some urgent care facilities, hospitals & dental colleges offer discounted dental services.
Democratic Presidential Candidates have been discussing Single Payer Universal Health Insurance which may help the patients with dental emergencies and reduce the cost for the hospitals and tax payers.

There are some life threatening dental emergencies, or traumas that require immediate attention at the emergency room in the hospital. These emergencies include jaw fractures and dislocations, an abscess with infection causing breathing or swallowing difficulties, and lacerations of the soft tissues of the face or mouth.

Your hospital, cannot help with other dental emergencies which are not life-threatening such as cracked tooth, lost tooth or a toothache. Hospitals are not equipped to provide treatment to restore tooth or basic dental service but they can offer pain prescriptions to manage pain until you can visit your dentist.

Urgent care facilities are a less expensive option to the hospital emergency rooms for dental emergencies. But they can offer medical or dental emergency solutions for non life threatening issues.

Some simple precautions can avoid accident and injury to the teeth causing you to visit the hospital emergency room.

• Wearing mouth guards when participating in sports or recreational activities.
• Avoiding chewing ice, popcorn kernels and hard candy, all of which can crack a tooth.
• Use scissors, never your teeth, to cut things. A patient ended up having root canal when he used his teeth to crack open a pistachio.

WellSpan York Hospital Dental Center located in York, Pennsylvania has walk-in hours for same day urgent dental needs. No appointments are needed. This type of walk-in same day dental service in all the hospitals across the country can help with the dental emergencies.

New York Presbyterian Hospital provides urgent care with 24 hour access for patients needing emergency dental care. Most dental colleges provide discounted dental service to patients. The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs provides medical as well as dental services to qualified patients.

There may be over the counter pain relief medication for dental use. Your pharmacist can help you to manage pain in case of dental emergency. Ibuprofen and acetaminophen are the most common over the counter pain relief medications. Most of the dental problems can be prevented by brushing twice a day, flossing daily, and regular dental checkups.

National Services Scotland (NHS) Hospital Dental Service (HDS) provides dental treatment to patients in their outpatient clinic. There are no in-patient beds in the dental hospitals and all in-patient activities occurs in the hospitals across the country. The dental patients are referred from medical and dental practitioners. This type of emergency dental service can be replicated in other countries.

Romney Care is the name given to Mitt Romney’s Health Care Insurance reform laws passed in Massachusetts in 2006 to provide all MA residents with affordable quality health insurance. The idea was that all citizens of the state should have health coverage. Romney Care was used as a model for the Affordable Care Act (Obama Care). As of today Romney Care is still in effect.

The Vermont state has also passed a Single Payer Health Care System beginning in 2017.

Colorado State will put a Single Payer Health Care System to vote in November 2016. If approved this program will be paid by raising payroll tax rate for employees & employers.

David Himmelstein is one of the authors of the plan that calls for implementing a Single Payer Health Care System in the US, eliminating the health insurance companies which may reduce the cost. Hemmelstein is supported by 2000 Physicians.

The uninsured, unemployed, poverty-stricken & destitute will be able to receive dental and medical services under the Single Payer Health Care Plan.

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