People get three types of dental cleanings: personal, regular professional, and deep cleaning. Personal cleaning involves brushing and flossing daily, while regular professional cleaning is done every 3-6 months. Deep cleaning is for those with gum disease and is more complex and expensive.
The average person gets three main types of dental cleanings on a regular basis: personal, regular professional, and deep cleaning. Personal cleaning is typically done with toothpaste, a toothbrush, and floss at least once a day. Many dentists recommend doing a personal cleaning after every meal, but studies show that many people choose to brush their teeth once a day, usually in the morning. Regular professional cleaning is recommended every three to six months, depending on your eating and smoking habits. Deep cleanings are reserved for people with gum disease or poor oral hygiene in general, and are done as needed.
The type of dental cleaning that people experience most often is personal self-cleaning. This is performed regularly by a person on their teeth. While the average person may use many different dental devices, the two most common are simply a toothbrush and dental floss. The toothbrush is typically used to clean the surfaces of the teeth and dentists usually recommend using circular motions to avoid damage to the enamel. Dental floss is packaged as a spool of plastic string that can be pulled out and detached, and is used to clean between the teeth.
Regular professional maintenance is usually done by an oral hygienist, not a dentist, and is typically recommended to be done every six months, although opinions vary. The purpose of regular professional maintenance is to clean areas that have been missed, hard to reach for a self-cleaning person, and to clean tartar that has hardened and is impossible to remove by mundane methods. Oral hygienists typically use a combination of tools, including dental floss, metal tools, and water picks to perform regular professional dental cleanings on patients.
Deep cleaning is a more complex dental cleaning that is usually given to people with excessive plaque buildup. A local anesthetic is used in the mouth, and then the teeth are cleaned slightly below the gum line. This type of thorough cleaning is much more expensive and time consuming than regular cleaning. A dentist typically completes the cleaning in three to four visits, but the number of visits needed depends largely on how much cleaning is needed in the patient’s mouth. People who really need a deep cleaning and neglect to get one are at risk of tooth loss, especially when the gums begin to separate from the teeth.
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