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ARE YOU PREPARED FOR A DENTAL EMERGENCY?

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hink of a Tooth Abscess
situation WHEN WOULD YOU NEED A tooth abscess can cause
Twhere TO VISIT AN EMERGENCY throbbing pain. The main goal
you or a DENTIST? of treatment is to eliminate the
member of your Chipped or Broken Tooth infection. To achieve this, the
family suddenly emergency dentist may open up
experiences If you experience a broken and drain the abscess. The dentist
extreme tooth tooth, having the extent of will have to make a small cut into
pain, has damage assessed so as to provide the abscess to allow the pus to
a swollen a suitable solution is important. drain out. The area will then be
mouth, An untreated broken tooth can washed with saltwater or saline.
has a loose tooth or accidently sometimes lead to infections such If a problem with your tooth has
knocks out a tooth. These are as sepsis or osteomyelitis which is caused the abscess, you may need
emergencies that cannot wait for an infection of the bone. You may root canal treatment, or the tooth
a regular dentist appointment. also develop an abscess which is may have to be removed. You will
very painful. also be prescribed pain killers and
Dental injuries also carry the possibly a course of antibiotics. procedure – such as swelling, and gentle treatment to all
risk of infections and faster Knocked Out Tooth Failure to treat an abscessed tooth redness or pain – make sure to our patients.
treatment means that any An emergency dentist can lead to severe complications. immediately visit a dentist to After an emergency, we will refer
additional health issues can be ensures that you receive faster determine if the recovery you back to your regular dentist
avoided. So, besides ensuring treatment, which will make a Lost Filling or Crown process is going well. This is for continued follow-up. 
quick pain relief and assistance big difference between whether Fillings or crowns are meant to especially important for surgery
for your injury, emergency or not your tooth is saved or protect already damaged teeth. treatments as it could be an
care will significantly reduce lost. A knocked-out tooth may Seeking immediate help when indication of an infection. Crown Dental Studio is one of the few
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SPACE FOR ELEPHANTS

rant Fowlds “Through education we have 40 000 Ha game reserve that
describes himself as to tell people that elephants are will not only become a safe new
Ga conservationist and part of the big five, part of the home for elephants, but will
someone who loves elephants. mechanics of biodiversity and also include a number of other
It is therefore unsurprising an asset. People don’t see that. endangered species including
that Fowlds is a trustee at the We have to take marginal farm black rhino, cheetah, pangolin
Human Elephant Foundation. lands that were once under and lion.
He has joined the efforts of cultivation and rewild them and Once complete the reserve
Andries Botha, David White give elephants a reason to stay intends having a number of
and John Charter to raise there,” says Fowlds. lodges and camps developed
funds for suitable projects and While Fowlds says that there through private investment,
implementing organisations, is not much space left, and which will then attract both
specifically for elephant much of this available space local and foreign visitors to
conservation in Africa. visit Loziba to experience
is incorrectly managed, he
South Africa has a crisis believes that a zone of safety for its incredible and unique
in that, in contrast to other elephants can be created. biodiversity as well as the
African countries, we have too The South African model only big five. 
many elephants for the space allows elephants to be kept once
allocated to them which results an elephant management plan Together with Graham Spence, Grant
in human wildlife conflict. is in place. This plan includes wrote, Saving the Last Rhinos: The Life of
The consequences are that the creating a fenced ecosystem a Frontline Conservationist in 2019. The
follow-up Rewilding Africa: Restoring the
elephants often raid crops or that allows elephants to exist in Wilderness on a War-Ravaged Continent,
get into an area where either harmony with people outside of was released in 2022.
a human or an elephant is the park. The role of the Human For more information visit
killed. In order to counter Elephant Foundation is to try www.humanelephant.org.za
this problem, we have to create and create these spaces.
additional space, corridors or
wildlife parks where elephants One of the spaces that the
can live as well as ensure that Human Elephant Foundation
these areas benefit the people has invested in is Loziba Game
living alongside them through Reserve. The founders’ primary
conservation efforts. mission is to create a 30,000 -

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