Love Dental — Caring For Your Dental Injury

We have treated your dental injury and stabilized the area. Injured teeth and tissues need time and careful protection to heal, and we will watch the teeth closely over the coming weeks and months. Here is how to care for the area and what to watch for.

The First Few Days

Soreness, swelling, and bruising are expected after an injury. Ice the first day.
If a tooth was repositioned or splinted, do not test it. Let it stabilize.
Stay ahead of pain with medication on schedule.

Protect The Area

Eat soft foods and chew away from the injured teeth for now.
Keep it clean with gentle brushing and warm salt water rinses so it does not get infected.
Do not wiggle or test an injured or splinted tooth, even if it feels loose.

What To Watch For Over Time

Injured teeth can change color (darken) over weeks or months. Tell us if you notice it.
The nerve can be affected even if the tooth looks fine, sometimes needing a root canal later.
This is why follow-up matters, we monitor the teeth to catch any change early.
A bump, pimple, or swelling on the gum near the tooth means call us.

Call Us If

Increasing pain, swelling, or fever, which can signal infection.
A tooth becomes more loose, or a splint comes off.
A tooth darkens, or a bump or pimple appears on the gum near it.
Any new symptom or anything that concerns you.

Why Follow-Up Is So Important

With dental trauma, the full picture unfolds over time. A tooth that looks fine today can have nerve or root changes that only show up weeks or months later, which is why we monitor it.

Keep every follow-up visit, even if the tooth feels fine. We check the nerve and root health over time.
Protect the area while it heals and keep it clean to prevent infection.
Report any change, color, looseness, a gum bump, or pain, right away, so we can act early.

Stay on top of your follow-ups and we will give your injured teeth the best chance to recover!

Questions or new symptoms after your injury? Call the office anytime. We are here for you!