When you think reasons you might end up in the emergency room, is dental pain on the list? The number of people going to the ER for dental treatment has increased dramatically in U.S., going from ...

More Americans are visiting the emergency room because of toothaches and other routine dental problems — at 10 times the cost of preventative care and with far fewer treatment options than a dentist’s ...

(CBS/AP) Toothaches can be incredibly painful, but painful enough to send you to the emergency room? For a growing number of Americans, the hospital is the first line of treatment for dental care, ...

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 ...

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 ...