CHICAGO (AP) — More Americans are turning to the emergency room for routine dental problems — a choice that often costs 10 times more than preventive care and offers far fewer treatment options than a ...

More Americans are visiting the emergency room because of toothaches and other routine dental problems – at 10 times the cost of preventative care and with far fewer treatment options than a dentist’s ...

When you think reasons you might end up in the emergency room, is dental pain on the list? The number of people going to the ER for dental treatment has increased dramatically in U.S., going from ...

Without insurance that covers dental care, more patients than ever seek care in hospital emergency rooms (ERs), according to a USA Today report. Those patients often turn to the ER when they are in ...

(CBS/AP) Toothaches can be incredibly painful, but painful enough to send you to the emergency room? For a growing number of Americans, the hospital is the first line of treatment for dental care, ...

The number of dental ER visits in the U.S. jumped from 1.1 million in 2000 to 2.1 million in 2010, HPRC found. The research also cited an independent 2009 study by the National Emergency Department ...

Clinicians frequently prescribe antibiotics and opioids to patients who visit emergency rooms (ER) with nontraumatic dental problems, according to a new study published in the March issue of the ...

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 care on a ventilator ...

Dentist office closures during the height of the pandemic led more low-income children to visit emergency rooms for routine dental care at a time when hospitals across the city were buckling under a ...

According to a 2012 study published by the American Dental Association, ER dental visits doubled nationwide from 2000 to 2010, rising from 1.1 million to 2.1 million. No one should have to choose ...

What started as a toothache from a lost filling became a raging infection that landed Christopher Smith in the emergency room, then in intensive care on a ventilator and feeding tube. "It came on so ...

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 ...