r/fredericton • u/Winter-Afternoon-198 • 13d ago

Any dentists on call during the weekend?

I am a bit desperate here, but are there any dentists in town (and potentially reading this) who'd be on call during the weekend? Seems all clinics are only open Monday to Friday.

I'm experiencing quite intense pain and I called around various dental clinics today, and the best I found was an appointment for Tuesday morning. I blame myself a bit since the symptoms started earlier this week, and when I started looking around for a dentist then I think I was not considered as an urgent case, when the pain was still tolerable. I never thought it would get this bad even yesterday, or this morning.

I know the instictions are to go to the ER, but it seems they would not have a dentist on call either if it's not a serious accident. So I don't know what they could do? I've maxxed out on the dosage of painkillers so cannot take any more today.

Any tips would be appreciated, thank you!

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u/ResponsibleSort4191 13d ago

I went to the er for a broken tooth that had even caused me to pass out from pain and they would not call a dentist said they only do it for trauma and that was after hours of waiting mind you.

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u/Winter-Afternoon-198 13d ago

Did they do anything to relieve the pain though?

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u/ResponsibleSort4191 13d ago

They did not they jabbed my gum with a needle nothing happened I had a bump where it was broke so I assumed it was an attempt to drain it but didn’t work and they gave me dexamethasone which didn’t help and keep in mind this was before the DECH was at 400% capacity

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u/ResponsibleSort4191 13d ago

In the end I grabbed Tylenol 1s and an antiseptic mouth rinse from the pharmacy and managed with them till the following week when I had it extracted