Emergency Dentist Brisbane : seen today when you call before 10am

Yes. Avenue Dental has three Brisbane practices, at North Lakes, Murrumba Downs and Woolloongabba, and all three hold space for emergencies every day they’re open. Call before 10am and our Same Day Emergency Guarantee means a dentist sees you that day, often within a few hours. Calls after 10am are still fitted in the same day wherever possible, with the next morning as the fallback.

A few private after-hours dental services operate in Brisbane, though true round-the-clock walk-in clinics are rare, and most work by phone or on-call arrangement at a fee several times a daytime appointment. What they provide overnight is an assessment, pain relief and a temporary fix, which is what you’d receive from us at 7am for $95. If the problem is dangerous, such as swelling spreading towards the eye or neck or a facial injury, the Royal Brisbane and Women’s or the Princess Alexandra emergency departments are open all night. For everything else, 13 HEALTH on 13 43 25 84 will tell you whether it can wait until morning.

At Avenue Dental the emergency appointment is $95, covering the consultation and X-ray. Any emergency treatment on the day, such as a temporary filling, re-cementing a crown or an extraction, is quoted before it’s done and charged on top, and the proper repair is costed at the follow-up once you’re out of pain. Private health extras cover can be claimed at the practice, with your fund’s rebate deducted on the spot, and interest-free payment plans through Humm are available for the follow-up treatment, subject to Humm’s approval and terms.

Our Woolloongabba practice is the closest to the city, a few minutes from the CBD by car and near the Gabba and Buranda busway stations. For the northside and Moreton Bay, North Lakes and Murrumba Downs are closer. Whichever you call, the $95 appointment and the Same Day Guarantee are the same.

All three Avenue Dental Brisbane practices are open 9am to 1pm on Saturdays and welcome new patients; you don’t need to have been to us before. The Same Day Guarantee applies on Saturday if you call before 10am. Sundays and public holidays are closed, so a Saturday morning break or toothache is worth ringing about straight away rather than waiting until Monday.

Phone rather than book online, because reception can see the day’s availability across North Lakes, Murrumba Downs and Woolloongabba and place you in the earliest gap. Describe what’s happened and when it started, and say if you’re in severe pain. Bring your health fund card, a list of any medications you take, and any piece of tooth, filling or crown that’s come out, kept in a damp tissue or milk. Eat beforehand if you can, since local anaesthetic is easier to sit through on a settled stomach.

You can, but for toothache on its own a Brisbane emergency department will generally give pain relief and advise you to see a dentist, because the ED isn’t set up to treat the tooth. Go to hospital if the pain comes with swelling spreading towards the eye or neck, a fever, difficulty swallowing or breathing, or an injury to the face or jaw; the Royal Brisbane and Women’s and the Princess Alexandra both have 24-hour EDs, and the Queensland Children’s Hospital sees kids. For toothache without those signs, a dentist is the right place and we can see you today.

Often, yes. If the X-ray shows the tooth can’t be saved and it’s a straightforward extraction, it can usually be done in the same visit, with the cost quoted first. A tooth that’s badly infected, broken below the gum or close to a nerve is more often settled with antibiotics and planned for a longer appointment, and for anxious patients oral and IV sedation are available at all three Brisbane practices. Where the tooth can be saved, the decision between a filling, a crown or root canal treatment is made at the follow-up with the costs in front of you.

Queensland Health provides emergency dental care for Pensioner Concession and Health Care Card holders through its public oral health clinics across Brisbane, and 13 HEALTH on 13 43 25 84 can direct you to the nearest one; appointments are prioritised by urgency and waits vary. Children eligible for the Child Dental Benefits Schedule may have some treatment covered through Medicare, and we can check eligibility when you call. Avenue Dental is a private practice, so our emergency appointment is $95 rather than bulk billed.

The visit has two jobs: work out the cause and get you out of pain. The dentist examines the tooth, takes an X-ray and explains what it shows, then does whatever settles it that day, whether that’s calming the nerve, a temporary filling, re-cementing a crown, draining an abscess or starting antibiotics. The bigger decision about repairing or removing the tooth is made at a follow-up, once you’re comfortable and have the options and prices in front of you. Children are seen under the same guarantee, and a knocked-out baby tooth should be left out rather than replaced, but still checked.