Dentistry

Toothache refers to pain in and around the teeth and jaws that’s usually caused by tooth decay.

Website
NHS UK: Toothache Advice

Follow the NHS link below to find your local dentist.

Website
www.nhs.uk

Buckinghamshire, Oxfordshire and Berkshire West (BOB) ICB offers the Urgent and Non-Urgent Unscheduled Care Dental Access Appointments Scheme.

The service covers patients in these categories:

– Urgent unscheduled care: patients who may require clinical care within 24 hours or as soon as practically possible, unless the condition worsens; or

– Non-urgent unscheduled care: patients requiring dental care within 7 days, unless the conditions worsens

Patients should contact 111 in the first instance if they need dental care. NHS 111 will signpost to urgent or unscheduled care.