North Denmark Region Dental Emergency Service

• What can you do yourself?

• Toothache, dental pain, and swollen gums can often be relieved with over-the-counter painkillers.
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• Contact your dentist tomorrow

• If your toothache cannot be relieved with over-the-counter painkillers. Read more about toothache.
• If you have or think you have broken a tooth. Read more about dental injuries.
• If you have the feeling of a 'pimple' at the gum line and yellow pus is oozing out. Read more about tooth abscess.
• If you have lost a filling, a crown, or a dental bridge.
• If your child has injuries to their baby teeth. Read more about dental injuries.
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• Contact an emergency dentist or dental emergency service

• If you have knocked out one or more teeth. Read more about dental injuries.
• If after a blow or a fall, you have an uneven bite and find it difficult to bite together as usual.
• If you suspect you have a tooth abscess with fever and/or swelling extending towards the neck or up towards the eye, read more about tooth abscess.
• If your child has knocked out one of their permanent teeth. Read more about dental injuries.
• In case of swelling or bleeding in the throat, contact 112.

• Phone hours: Saturdays, Sundays, and public holidays from 09 to 10.

Aalborg - Tandlægevagten

Filstedvej 10, 9000 Aalborg

• You pay for treatment at the dental emergency service and at the emergency dentist yourself.
• Your municipality covers the cost of treatment for children and young people under 22 years old.
• If you are a member of Sygeforsikringen Danmark, there are varying subsidies for treatment.
• In case of dental injuries, it's important to report it to your insurance company. It is free to file a claim, and it can be the basis for payment of acute treatment, follow-up care, and any complications later on.