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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A record number of Americans are going to emergency rooms for dental treatment, a problem the dental industry says is straining the nation's health care system and increasing its costs. Research out ...

I am writing in response to your recent story regarding concerns that emergency room visits for dental conditions are rising. Thank you for bringing this issue to the fore. As the voice of organized ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...