At Kansas City Urgent Dental, many patients call the office who aren’t sure if their dental condition is considered an “emergency,” and so they ask us when they call whether or not they need to be seen immediately by a dentist, or whether they can wait a few days to get into their normal dentist.  One such emergency is what we call in the profession, pericoronitis, an infection of the gum tissue surrounding a wisdom tooth that is in the process of erupting into the mouth, or

A tooth infection typically develops when harmful bacteria enter the inner layers of the tooth through: