Emergency Dental For Kids In Lafayette, CO

Lafayette has no 24-hour pediatric dental clinic. Every kids' dental office serving this town, ours included, closes for the night. So the question at 9 p.m. isn't who's open. It's which of four doors you need, and three of them aren't a dental chair.

Call (303) 500-3202. Current Mini Miners patients press 2 to reach the pediatric dentist on call. We prioritize same-day emergency appointments for our patients.

Is This an Emergency Right Now?

Three things decide it. Swelling or fever. A permanent tooth out of the socket. Whether your child can eat and sleep.

Go to the emergency room

Facial swelling, especially spreading toward the eye or down the neck. Fever with a toothache. Bleeding that hasn't slowed after 15 minutes of steady pressure. A tooth driven up into the gum. A possible broken jaw. Any head knock that came with the mouth injury. Trouble breathing or swallowing means 911.

Call the on-call line

A permanent tooth knocked out or knocked loose. A cracked tooth with pink or red showing in the middle. Pain your child can't sleep through.

It can wait until morning

A small chip with no pain. A baby tooth knocked out with the bleeding controlled. An ache that ibuprofen settles and that lets your child eat breakfast.

The Four Doors Open After 5 p.m.

Door 1: our on-call pediatric dentist

Call (303) 500-3202 and press 2. You reach the Mini Miners dentist on call, not an answering service. This line is for current patients, and during the week a patient of record with an emergency gets same-day priority.

If your child isn't established with a dentist anywhere, don't sit on a voicemail while a permanent tooth dries out. Read the 15-minute steps below, then use Door 3.

Door 3: the 24/7 pediatric emergency room in Broomfield

The closest around-the-clock pediatric door to Lafayette is Children's Hospital Colorado North Campus, 469 State Highway 7, Broomfield. The emergency department never closes. Urgent care at the same campus opens at 11 a.m.

The honest limit: an ER manages pain, infection, bleeding and facial injuries. It won't finish the dentistry. Someone still has to rebuild the tooth or take it out once a dentist is awake. Plan for two visits.

Children's also staffs a pediatric nurse line 24 hours a day at 720-777-0123. Free, and a nurse rather than a dentist.

Door 2: the Children's Colorado dental clinic, weekdays

Children's Hospital Colorado runs pediatric dental clinics and triages what comes in. Their dental line is 720-777-6788. Call before you drive, because they decide what counts as urgent that day.

Door 4: a covered video dentist, for CHP+ families

Pages ranking for this search skip this one. Colorado's CHP+ dental benefit includes a video dental visit available 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, already paid for if your child is enrolled. Call 866-302-0905.

It can't replant a tooth. At 2 a.m. it can tell you whether you're looking at an abscess that needs the ER tonight or a chip that waits until Monday.

The 15-Minute Rule, and the Baby Tooth Exception

A knocked-out permanent tooth has its best chance if it goes back in the socket within 15 minutes. A knocked-out baby tooth should never go back in at all.

Plenty of pages say 30 minutes. The American Academy of Pediatrics guidance, updated October 23, 2025, says 15, with the first hour still workable if the tooth stays wet. Use the shorter number.

Knocked-out permanent tooth

Pick it up by the crown, the chewing part. Never the root.
Rinse it gently with milk or saline if it's dirty. Not tap water. Don't scrub it and don't dry it.
Put it back in the socket the right way round. Have your child bite gently on clean gauze.
If you can't seat it, put it in milk. Saline or your child's own saliva works. Never water.
Call us while someone else drives.

Dry time kills the tooth, not distance. A tooth kept wet in milk on a 25-minute drive beats a dry tooth from four blocks away.

Knocked-out baby tooth

Gauze on the socket, firm pressure, and leave the tooth out. Putting a baby tooth back can damage the permanent tooth forming right above it. Photograph the mouth, call in the morning, and book an exam within a day or two so we can check the permanent tooth underneath.

Bleeding that soaks gauze past 15 minutes, or a lip split wide open, makes this Door 3.

Telling them apart

Front permanent teeth usually arrive around age 6 or 7. Before that, almost anything that comes out is a baby tooth. Baby teeth are smaller, whiter and rounder at the edge. If you can't tell, don't force it back. Keep it wet and drive.

Other Calls We Get Most

Toothache. Look first, because something wedged between two teeth causes more evening toothaches than you'd expect. Floss gently, rinse with warm water, and dose ibuprofen or acetaminophen by weight rather than age. In a small child, decay is the usual cause. A toothache with a fever or a swollen face is Door 3.

Chipped tooth, no pain. Ice it, save the fragment in milk, call Monday. Pink or red in the middle of the break means exposed nerve, so call us tonight.

Bitten lip or tongue. Clean it, press with gauze, ice the outside. Mouths bleed dramatically and usually stop. Fifteen minutes of pressure with no slowdown means the ER.

Tooth pushed up into the gum. Don't pull it and don't wiggle it. This needs an x-ray, and what we do depends on whether it's a baby tooth or a permanent one.

What Happens When You Call Us

Dr. Alison Grover completed her pediatric dental residency at UCLA, holds a Pediatric Dental Diplomate certification, and earned a degree in child psychology from Wellesley College.

A child hurt at 8 p.m. arrives frightened, and a frightened child clamps down. Every room is plumbed for nitrous oxide, and we offer all levels of sedation from nitrous through moderate and deep. Tell us on the phone if your child has sensory sensitivities or a bad history at another office, so we can plan the visit before you arrive.

We're at 61 Erie Pkwy, Suite 101, in Erie Commons at the corner of Briggs Street and Erie Parkway, between I-25 and Highway 287, minutes from Lafayette. Parking is at the door. More on our pediatric dentist in Lafayette, CO page.

Hours are Monday through Thursday 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. and Friday 8 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. We're closed weekends, and the on-call line covers our patients outside those hours.

Questions Lafayette Parents Ask

Is there an emergency pediatric dentist open right now in Lafayette?

No. Lafayette has no 24-hour pediatric dental clinic, and neither does Erie or Louisville. After hours you have an on-call pediatric dentist by phone, the pediatric emergency department at Children's Colorado North Campus in Broomfield, and a covered video dentist if your child is on CHP+.

Should I take my child to the ER for a knocked-out tooth?

Use a pediatric emergency department rather than a general one, and know what it does. An ER handles pain, infection, bleeding and injuries to the face and jaw. It doesn't replant and splint teeth. For a knocked-out permanent tooth with no other injury, calling a pediatric dentist is the faster first move.

My child knocked out a baby tooth. Is that an emergency?

Usually not an after-hours one. Stop the bleeding with gauze, leave the tooth out, and call in the morning. It turns urgent if bleeding won't stop, the lip or gum is torn open, or the face starts to swell.

Can you see my child if we've never been to Mini Miners?

Call during office hours and we'll tell you whether we can fit your child in that day. The press-2 line after hours is for established patients.

What about insurance?

Our team handles the insurance details and works to maximize your benefits. Families without dental insurance can use the Mini Miners Membership Plan.

How do we stop this happening again?

Mouthguards for contact sports, and a routine cleaning and exam every 6 months. Most of the pain we see at 9 p.m. started as something small that was catchable in a chair months earlier.