- Unit #1, 2180 Steeles Ave W, Concord, ON L4K 2Z5
- 647-800-8835
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Experiencing severe tooth pain, a broken tooth, or a dental emergency? Smart Care Dental provides fast, compassionate emergency dental care in Vaughan — same-day appointments available.
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No matter the emergency, our experienced team in Vaughan is equipped to relieve your pain and restore your smile — fast. Our unique methodology combines data-driven strategy with creative excellence to deliver exceptional results.
Don't endure the pain. We diagnose and treat severe toothaches quickly to give you immediate relief.
Cracked or chipped teeth need urgent attention. We restore structure and protect the nerve.
Time-sensitive! Get to us within an hour and we may be able to save the tooth entirely.
A serious infection that can spread. We drain, treat, and prescribe antibiotics same day.
Exposed teeth are painful and vulnerable. We re-cement or replace quickly and comfortably.
Swelling can signal infection. We assess and treat to prevent further complications.
First Aid
What you do before you reach us often decides how much of the tooth can be saved. Here is what helps, and what quietly makes things worse, for the emergencies we see most often.
Triage
Not every dental problem is an emergency, and a few are more urgent than most people realise. If you are not sure which group you fall into, call and describe what is happening. We would far rather talk it through than have you sit on something serious overnight.
We hold space in the daily schedule for emergencies, so same day appointments are usually possible if you call early. Evenings run late three days a week, which helps if you cannot leave work.
Your Visit
People put off calling because they are not sure what they are walking into. An emergency appointment is narrower than a regular checkup. The goal is to get you comfortable and stop the problem getting worse, not to sell you a treatment plan while you are in pain.
Before any long conversation, we settle the pain. For most people that means local anaesthetic, and for anyone who is anxious we can talk through quieter options before we start. It is much easier to make a decision about your tooth once it has stopped throbbing.
A focused examination of the area, and usually a single digital x-ray of the tooth in question. Digital sensors use a fraction of the radiation of older film, and you wear a shield. If you are pregnant or think you might be, tell us and we will adjust.
What is wrong, what we can do about it today, what can safely wait, and what happens if you choose to do nothing for now. Doing nothing is a real option for some problems and a bad one for others, and you are entitled to know which this is.
Emergency care is about stabilising. That might mean draining an infection, placing a sedative dressing, re-cementing a crown, smoothing a sharp edge that is cutting your tongue, splinting a loose tooth, or beginning root canal treatment to take the pressure off the nerve.
Anything that needs more chair time, a lab, or a bit of thought is scheduled for a later visit. You should never be signing off on a crown or an implant while the freezing is still wearing off.
Cost And Coverage
Worrying about the bill is one of the main reasons people sit at home with a tooth that is getting worse. It is worth knowing what is actually available before you decide to wait it out.
Most workplace and private plans in Ontario treat an emergency examination and a diagnostic x-ray as basic services, which are usually reimbursed at a higher percentage than major work such as crowns. Coverage for the treatment itself depends on what the tooth needs.
The Canadian Dental Care Plan now covers a share of costs for eligible residents without private insurance, and this practice participates in it. Eligibility runs through Service Canada rather than through us, so it is worth checking your status before you call.
Ontario also has publicly funded programs for children and for some seniors and low income adults. If money is the thing stopping you, say so when you call. There is usually more room to work with than people expect.
Any dentist should answer all of these without hesitating. Ontario dentists work to a published fee guide and are regulated by the Royal College of Dental Surgeons of Ontario, so you are entitled to a clear estimate in writing before you agree to anything.
Afterwards
The day after an emergency appointment is when most of the healing is decided, and most repeat emergencies were preventable long before they started hurting.
Very few dental emergencies are genuinely accidents. Most are small problems that were quietly ignored until the nerve got involved, and they rarely pick a convenient moment to announce themselves.
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Questions
The things people ask on the phone before they decide whether to come in.
No. We see people who have never been to this practice before, and that is true of most dental offices in Vaughan. You do not need a referral either. Call, describe the problem, and we will tell you honestly whether you need to come in today or whether it can wait.
For anything involving breathing, swallowing, spreading swelling, uncontrolled bleeding or a head injury, go straight to a hospital emergency department. They can manage infection, pain and airway risk overnight.
For a knocked out tooth outside our hours, keep it in cold milk and get to any dentist or hospital that can see you quickly, because that one really is a race against the clock. For most other problems, the first aid steps further up this page will hold you until morning. Leave us a message and we will fit you in.
In the great majority of cases you leave out of pain. Draining an abscess, starting a root canal, placing a dressing, re-cementing a crown and smoothing a fractured edge can all be done in an emergency appointment. What usually waits is the permanent restoration, because a crown or a bridge needs lab time and a properly planned visit.
It depends what is wrong. Hospitals are the right call for airway problems, serious facial trauma, a suspected fractured jaw and infections that are making you systemically unwell. What most Ontario emergency departments cannot do is treat the tooth itself. They are generally not staffed to perform a root canal or an extraction, so people often leave with antibiotics and pain relief and still need a dentist the next day. If the problem is the tooth, a dental office is faster and usually cheaper.
Do not try to put a baby tooth back in. Reimplanting it risks damaging the adult tooth developing above it. It is still worth a same day call so we can check for fragments left in the socket and make sure the adult tooth and the jaw are not affected.
A knocked out adult tooth in an older child is the opposite situation and should be reimplanted straight away if possible.
The pattern that usually points that way is pain that lingers long after something hot or cold has gone, pain that wakes you at night, pain when you bite down, or a tooth that has changed colour. A gum boil near the root is another strong sign.
None of that is a diagnosis on its own. It takes an examination and an x-ray, and sometimes a simple nerve test, to know whether the nerve can still recover or whether the tooth needs root canal treatment.
Digital dental x-rays use a very small dose, far lower than older film, and the beam is aimed at a small area with shielding in place. Dental practice in Ontario is regulated by the Royal College of Dental Surgeons of Ontario, and we only take an image when it changes what we do.
Tell us if you are pregnant or think you might be. Urgent dental care, including treating infection, is safer during pregnancy than leaving an infection untreated, but we will take only what is genuinely necessary.
