The straight version: our office sees patients Monday through Thursday 8:00 AM to 5:00 PM and Friday 8:00 AM to 1:00 PM, and our phone is answered by a real person every hour of every day. Call (770) 802-2220 on a Saturday night and you'll talk to a human who takes your details and holds you the first opening, usually Monday at 8:00 AM. This page covers what to do in between.
The $89 covers the emergency exam and diagnostic X-rays. Treatment is priced separately and quoted to you in writing before any work starts.
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Why call now if the office is closed?
Because Monday's first chairs go to the people who already called. A toothache that starts Friday night and waits until Monday morning to dial is competing with everyone else who waited. Calling when it happens puts your name on the schedule while the rest of Douglas County is still searching.
The person answering also does something useful in the moment: listens to the symptoms. Some situations shouldn't wait for any dentist, and it's better to hear that on Saturday than to discover it Monday.
The Friday afternoon gap
Our office closes at 1:00 PM on Fridays. A tooth that breaks at 3:00 PM Friday is, for our purposes, a weekend call: the phone is answered, your details are taken, and the first Monday opening is held. If the problem can't wait until Monday, the front desk will say so honestly and you can seek sooner care elsewhere, then see us for the follow-up.
When not to wait for us
Go to an emergency room first, then call us for the tooth, if you have:
- Swelling that makes it hard to breathe or swallow, or that's closing your eye
- A high fever along with facial swelling
- Bleeding that pressure hasn't slowed after 20 minutes
- A blow to the face with a possible jaw fracture, or any loss of consciousness
Wellstar Douglas Hospital in Douglasville and Wellstar Cobb Hospital in Austell are the nearest ERs for most of our patients. Hospitals treat infections that are spreading and injuries beyond the teeth. What they generally can't do is treat the tooth itself; our post on whether the ER can pull a tooth explains the split. For a knocked-out adult tooth, minutes matter: follow that page's storage steps and get to the soonest available care, weekend or not.
Getting through the night: what actually helps
- Pain: ibuprofen or acetaminophen, used exactly as the label directs. Ask a pharmacist before combining them.
- Swelling: a cold compress outside the cheek, 15 minutes on and 15 off. Sleep with your head propped up.
- A lost filling or crown: drugstore dental cement as a temporary cover, never household glue. Details on the lost filling and crown page.
- A sharp edge cutting your tongue: sugarless gum or dental wax over the point.
- Food packed in a painful spot: warm salt-water rinses; skip the toothpicks.
What doesn't help: aspirin held against the gum (it burns tissue), heat on a swollen face (it feeds infection), and alcohol as a painkiller.
Saturday and Sunday searches, answered plainly
Searching "dentist open Saturday near Lithia Springs" will turn up offices with weekend chairs, and if your situation can't wait until Monday, using one is the right decision; call us afterward at (770) 802-2220 for follow-up. What we offer on a weekend is the 24/7 phone, a held Monday 8:00 AM chair, and honest advice about whether your symptoms can safely wait. Many can: a cracked tooth that isn't hurting, a lost filling, a dull ache, a crown in your pocket. Those keep until Monday with the steps above. The ones that can't wait are on the ER list higher up, and no dental office is the right first stop for those anyway.
The Monday plan
When the doors open at 8:00 AM, weekend callers come first. The visit runs like every emergency visit here: the $89 exam and X-rays, a diagnosis you can see on the screen, a written price, then treatment, whether that's a toothache workup, an extraction or a root canal. Cost and insurance details are on the cost and insurance page.
Frequently asked questions
Is there really a person on the phone at 2 AM?
Yes. Our front desk team answers the number at every hour. They take your name, number and symptoms, flag anything that sounds like an ER situation, and hold you the first opening. They don't give medical advice over the phone, and they'll say so.
Do you charge extra for the first Monday appointment after a weekend call?
No. The exam and X-rays are $89 whenever the visit happens, and treatment is quoted in writing the same way at 8:00 AM Monday as at 2:00 PM Wednesday. Calling on the weekend costs nothing and gets you the earlier chair.
Can I text or email instead of calling on a weekend?
Call. The number is answered around the clock, which no inbox is, and a two-minute conversation sorts out urgency in a way a message can't. It's the same number, (770) 802-2220, day, night, weekday and weekend.
My tooth stopped hurting over the weekend. Should I cancel Monday?
Keep the appointment. Pain that disappears on its own is sometimes a nerve dying rather than a problem resolving, and the quiet stretch is when treatment is simplest. Let the X-ray decide; it's $89 to know rather than guess.