Improvised Emergency Dental Care & Instruments
As part of their emergency preparations, survivalists typically get their dental work caught up and prepare a dental first aid kit to help them deal with dental emergencies.
We don’t do this because it may be hard to find a dentist during the zombie apocalypse. We more often do it to save money and to be able to handle the odd dental emergency.
Investing in the capability to treat dental emergencies gives you a valuable skillset that makes you useful to your community. Even if dental professionals are available to render treatment in an emergency, you may need to provide your own supplies.
Keep your dental work current. It’s better to treat dental problems now, when professional help is available if needed. Because dental problems can become very serious, even life threatening, wisdom teeth are often removed around the age of eighteen before lengthy military or missionary service. This is done to prevent patients from having to deal with a swollen, infected jaw in an austere setting. Even after dental work is done, attention should be paid to dental hygiene. I’m sure it must be very disappointing to pass special forces selection and then to go combat ineffective because you failed to take care of your teeth, but this happens to scores of military personnel every year. Learn from their mistakes by getting your teeth in shape and keeping them that way.
I enjoy traveling and camping in austere settings, so it’s important to be able to handle dental emergencies in these settings. But, even if you never leave the city, most dentists don’t treat patients an emergency basis like a hospital emergency room, so most folks are on their own to handle dental emergencies until they are able to schedule an appointment.
Another reason people make alternative plans for dental work is that they don’t trust our bloated, overpriced dental healthcare system. Excessive regulation, pharmaceutical patents and shady politics mean Americans pay many times the prices citizens of other nations pay for the same procedure. Because of this, many Americans duck across the border to Canada or Mexico where they pay a fraction of the price for the same dental work. If you travel someplace that does quality dental work inexpensively, you might as well take advantage of it.
Although teeth are a part of a healthy human body, the US government doesn’t seem to think you need them. When it comes to dental care most of us are on our own.
If you saw the movie Castaway, you probably remember the scene where the protagonist extracted a tooth with a rock and an ice skate that he liberated from a FedEx package. A dental emergency in an austere survival ordeal can be a daunting proposition. Here are a few ideas on improvising dental instruments and care from pocket survival kit contents.
While it’s nice to know how to improvise dental tools in a dire emergency, a proper emergency dental kit will make treatment more effective and less painful. Many of the supplies and instruments needed for emergency dentistry are also useful in emergency medicine, making them doubly important. Review the following contents and customize them to your needs:
General/Diagnostic – The following three instruments are needed for every dental procedure so buy extras if you may treat more than one patient at a time and bundle them in sets of three.
Cement Fillings – Without the specialized tools and dental drills required for permanent fillings, you will be limited to less definitive treatments such as temporary fillings.
Extracting Teeth – Most teeth can be extracted using the first three tools below and a spoon excavator. The other tools are useful in removing firmly rooted back molars.
Cache Valley Prepper is the CEO of Survival Sensei, LLC, a freelance author, writer, survival instructor, consultant and the director of the Survival Brain Trust. A descendant of pioneers, Cache was raised in the tradition of self-reliance and grew up working archaeological digs in the desert Southwest, hiking the Swiss Alps and Scottish highlands and building the Boy Scout Program in Portugal. Cache was mentored in survival by a Delta Force Lt Col and a physician in the US Nuclear Program and in business by Stephen R. Covey. You can catch up with Cache teaching EMP survival at survival expos, teaching SERE to ex-pats and vagabonds in South America or getting in some dirt time with the primitive skills crowd in a wilderness near you. His Facebook page is here. Cache Valley Prepper is a pen name used to protect his identity. You can send Cache Valley Prepper a message at editor [at] survivopedia.com
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Along with this kit, write out a sheet with contraindications and drug interactions.
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I’ve heard of people using household glues to repair teeth.
Glues such as epoxy resin,wood glue or even superglue.
I’d be interested in comments about this or other emergency repairs for if recognised materials are not available.
E.g.-shell casing , wooden peg , tape , builders grout ,silicon sealant
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