Tooth Pain Taking Over?
Get the Source Treated Today.
Throbbing pain, pressure, sharp pain when biting, pain that wakes you up, swelling, or pain that medication no longer controls can be signs of a deeper dental problem. Prime Emergency Dental is built specifically for urgent dental problems, with digital X-rays, a clear diagnosis, affordable payment options for patients with or without insurance, upfront cost review, and Same-Day Urgent Treatment Available when clinically appropriate.
Severe tooth pain rarely resolves the underlying problem. If the pain is worsening, waking you up, affecting your eating, or accompanied by swelling, get the tooth evaluated today.
Urgent Tooth Pain Care.
No Routine-Office Runaround.
When your tooth is throbbing, keeping you awake, or making it impossible to chew, you should not have to wait days or weeks for a routine appointment. Prime Emergency Dental focuses on painful, urgent dental problems and treatment decisions that need attention now.
Your visit is built around finding the source: exam, digital X-rays, diagnosis, treatment options, affordable payment pathways, exact cost before treatment, and Same-Day Urgent Treatment Available when clinically appropriate. No dental insurance is required to be seen. Our clinical systems have been shaped by 10,000+ urgent dental cases across clinical practice and mission work.
If you are nervous or worried treatment will hurt, tell us before we begin. Nitrous oxide/laughing gas is available for anxious or nervous patients when clinically appropriate.
Severe Tooth Pain Symptoms
That Should Not Be Ignored
Tooth pain can come from decay, an infected nerve, a crack, a failing filling or crown, an abscess, gum infection, or pressure around a wisdom tooth. These symptoms deserve a dental diagnosis.
Throbbing or Pulsing Pain
A heartbeat-like sensation, constant pressure, or pain that keeps returning can indicate inflammation or infection inside the tooth.
Pain That Wakes You Up
Tooth pain that becomes worse at night or prevents sleep can be a sign that the nerve inside the tooth is severely inflamed.
Lingering Hot or Cold Pain
Sensitivity that continues after the temperature is removed may be a sign that the tooth nerve cannot recover on its own.
Pain When Biting or Chewing
Sharp pain or pressure when chewing may be caused by a crack, infection, inflammation around the root, or a damaged restoration.
Swelling, Pus, or a Gum Bump
Swelling, drainage, a bad taste, or a bump near the tooth may indicate a dental abscess or infection.
Medication Is No Longer Working
When ibuprofen or acetaminophen provides little relief, the source may require dental treatment rather than stronger pain medication.
Severe tooth pain today? Call during open hours, walk in, or book online anytime.
What May Be Causing
Your Tooth Pain?
The sensation may feel similar, but the correct treatment depends on what is actually happening underneath the tooth or gum.
Deep Tooth Decay
Decay that reaches close to or into the nerve can cause severe, lingering, or spontaneous pain.
Inflamed or Infected Nerve
An irreversibly inflamed or infected pulp may require root canal treatment or extraction.
Cracked or Fractured Tooth
A crack may cause sharp biting pain and can deepen if the tooth continues to absorb pressure.
Dental Abscess
Infection around the root or gum can create pressure, swelling, drainage, tenderness, or severe pain.
Broken Filling or Crown
Lost or damaged restorations can expose the tooth and allow pain, sensitivity, decay, or fracture to worsen.
Wisdom Tooth Inflammation
Swollen tissue, pressure, trapped food, decay, or infection around a wisdom tooth can cause significant jaw and tooth pain.
Pain Is a Warning Sign.
Do Not Ignore the Source.
The Problem Usually Does Not Stay the Same
Tooth pain may temporarily decrease, but that does not always mean the tooth is healing. A nerve can die, an infection can spread, a crack can deepen, or swelling can become more serious. If pain is affecting your sleep, eating, work, parenting, or ability to think clearly, get a diagnosis instead of waiting for the next flare-up.
Infection can spread into the gums, jawbone, face, and surrounding tissue.
Cracks can deepen and make a tooth harder or impossible to restore.
Swelling near the throat or neck can become a medical emergency.
Earlier treatment is often simpler than waiting until symptoms become severe.
Pain Medicine May Help Temporarily.
The Tooth Still Needs a Diagnosis.
Medication can sometimes reduce symptoms, but it does not repair a damaged tooth or remove the cause of most severe dental pain.
Treat the Dental Source
Antibiotics may be appropriate for certain infections, spreading swelling, fever, or other medical concerns. However, antibiotics and pain medication are not substitutes for an exam, digital X-rays, diagnosis, and treatment of the source.
Pain Pills Can Mask Symptoms
Medication may reduce pain temporarily while decay, infection, or a crack continues underneath.
Antibiotics Do Not Repair Teeth
Antibiotics cannot remove decay, seal a fracture, restore missing tooth structure, or treat a dead nerve.
Treatment Targets the Cause
The solution may be a filling, crown, root canal, drainage, extraction, or another treatment based on the diagnosis.
Some Symptoms Need Immediate Help
Trouble breathing or swallowing, severe fever, or swelling into the throat or neck should be evaluated medically right away.
Built for Severe Tooth Pain,
Not Routine Scheduling.
Prime Emergency Dental focuses on urgent and painful dental situations: severe toothaches, infected nerves, abscesses, broken teeth, swelling, urgent root canals, and extractions. Our clinical systems have been shaped by 10,000+ urgent dental cases across clinical practice and mission work.
Urgent Dental Focus
We focus on painful, time-sensitive dental problems rather than routine cleanings and months-out appointments.
Clear Diagnosis
We take digital X-rays, evaluate the painful tooth, and explain what is happening in direct, understandable language.
10,000+ Urgent Cases
Our urgent treatment systems have been shaped by more than 10,000 urgent dental cases across clinical practice and mission work.
Same-Day Treatment Available
When clinically appropriate, treatment can often begin the same day instead of sending you home to continue waiting.
Affordable Payment Options
We see patients with or without insurance and review available payment pathways before treatment begins.
Comfort-Focused Care
Thorough numbing, controlled pacing, and nitrous oxide/laughing gas are available when appropriate.
Nervous About Treatment?
Tell Us Before We Start.
Many patients with severe tooth pain are afraid treatment will hurt, embarrassed they waited, worried about the cost, or overwhelmed by the situation. We explain the diagnosis, review the treatment cost and affordable payment options before care begins, numb thoroughly, and move at a controlled pace. Nitrous oxide/laughing gas is available when clinically appropriate.
😌 Laughing Gas Available
Nitrous oxide can help anxious patients feel calmer during treatment when appropriate.
🧊 Thorough Numbing
You should feel pressure, not sharp pain. If you feel anything sharp, we stop and provide additional anesthetic.
🗣️ Clear Communication
You will know what we are doing, why we recommend it, and what it costs before treatment begins.
From Severe Pain to Diagnosis
to Treatment Today
The visit is designed to identify the source, explain your options, review the cost and payment pathways, and treat the urgent dental problem when clinically appropriate.
Call, Book Online, or Walk In
Call (425) 864-7600, book online, or come directly to 22315 Highway 99, Suite G. Calling ahead helps us prepare for your specific symptoms.
Exam, Digital X-Rays & Testing
We evaluate the painful area, take needed X-rays, and may perform biting, percussion, cold, or other tests to identify the source.
Clear Diagnosis, Cost & Payment Options
We explain what is causing the pain, review treatment options, provide the exact cost, and explain available payment pathways before anything begins.
Same-Day Urgent Treatment Available
Root canal treatment, extractions, abscess care, broken tooth treatment, and other urgent procedures may be available the same day when clinically appropriate.
Edmonds’ Urgent Tooth Pain Office
When Waiting Is Not an Option.
Prime Emergency Dental is built for patients who need answers about severe tooth pain today—not a routine cleaning, a future consultation, or vague phone advice while the pain becomes worse.
We are located on Highway 99 in Edmonds with parking directly in front. If you have severe tooth pain, swelling, a broken tooth, abscess symptoms, wisdom tooth pain, or think you may need a root canal or extraction, call ahead so our team can prepare.
No dental insurance is required to be seen. We review treatment costs before anything begins and offer affordable payment options through Cherry, CareCredit, and Proceed Finance. Our urgent treatment systems have been shaped by 10,000+ urgent dental cases across clinical practice and mission work.
A Direct Answer
When the Pain Is Real.
You need an urgent dental office that can identify the source, explain the cost, offer affordable payment options, and provide treatment today when clinically appropriate.
Severe Pain Focus
Our office is designed around urgent tooth pain, infection, swelling, fractures, root canals, and extractions.
Days a Week
Open daily 9AM–8PM, including weekends. Severe tooth pain does not wait for Monday.
Laughing Gas Available
Nitrous oxide is available for anxious or nervous patients when clinically appropriate.
Urgent Dental Cases
Across clinical practice and mission work, helping shape our urgent treatment systems and same-day workflow.
Google Rating
100+ Google reviews from patients who needed urgent dental help, comfort, and clear answers.
“The dentist went above and beyond to accommodate me last minute... my pain was being prioritized.” — Kirsten Bennett
Still in pain? Call during open hours, walk in, or book online anytime.
Before You Come In,
Common Questions
Helpful information before you call, book, or walk in.
Severe, worsening, throbbing, or sleep-disrupting tooth pain should be evaluated promptly. Pain with swelling, fever, drainage, a bad taste, or difficulty chewing may indicate infection, fracture, or significant inflammation.
Yes. Walk-ins are welcome during open hours, 9AM–8PM daily. Calling ahead is helpful because it allows our team to prepare for your symptoms, but you may also come directly to the office.
After the exam and X-rays, we explain the diagnosis, treatment options, and cost. If treatment is clinically appropriate and you choose to proceed, Same-Day Urgent Treatment Available for many severe tooth pain situations.
No. Tooth pain can come from decay, a crack, a damaged filling, gum inflammation, an abscess, or another condition. A root canal may be recommended when the nerve is irreversibly inflamed or infected and the tooth can be restored. Other teeth may need a filling, crown, extraction, or different treatment.
Medication may be appropriate in certain situations, but antibiotics and pain medicine often do not fix the dental source. They cannot repair a crack, remove decay, treat an infected nerve, or remove a non-restorable tooth. We evaluate first and explain whether medication, dental treatment, or both are appropriate.
The cost depends on the exam, X-rays, diagnosis, and treatment needed. We review the recommended treatment and exact cost before anything begins. Affordable payment options are available through Cherry, CareCredit, and Proceed Finance, and we see patients with or without insurance.
Yes. Nitrous oxide, also called laughing gas, is available for anxious or nervous patients when clinically appropriate. Tell us when you call, book, or arrive so we can discuss whether it is a good option for your visit.
No. You do not need dental insurance to be seen. We welcome patients with or without insurance and offer affordable payment options through Cherry, CareCredit, and Proceed Finance. We can also provide documentation that you may submit to your insurer for possible out-of-network reimbursement.
Go to the ER or call 911 if you have trouble breathing, trouble swallowing, swelling spreading into your throat or neck, serious facial trauma, uncontrolled bleeding, high fever, confusion, faintness, or you feel severely ill. For severe tooth pain, broken teeth, localized swelling, infection, or extraction needs without those red flags, call us for urgent dental help.
Yes. We are open 7 days a week from 9AM to 8PM, including Saturdays and Sundays. Call during open hours, walk in, or book online anytime.
Patients Felt Heard,
Helped, and Prioritized.
"This place is the best! They’re sooo friendly and calming and helped with my pain. The dentist went above and beyond to accommodate me last minute and it was extremely refreshing to feel like my pain was being prioritized. Highly recommend"
— Kirsten Bennett"Dr. Chon, Destiny and Joy were so kind and helpful. I really appreciate their help at a time of great need. I highly recommend them especially in case of an emergency. Thank you very much! G. Hag."
— Grace C. Hager"My mother went in for an emergency dental procedure a couple days ago and Dr. Steve Chon took such amazing care of my mom. I cannot be more grateful! He was kind, gentle, friendly, cheerful, and extremely considerate."
— Jinshil Yi
Severe Tooth Pain?
Get Seen Today.
Same-Day Urgent Treatment Available from 9AM–8PM, 7 days a week when clinically appropriate. No dental insurance is required to be seen, affordable payment options are available, and nitrous oxide/laughing gas is available for anxious patients when appropriate.
Prime Emergency Dental · 22315 Highway 99, Suite G, Edmonds, WA 98026 · Open Daily · 9AM–8PM