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Why Should I Get My Teeth Cleaned?
Hopefully, you already have a good oral care routine where you brush your teeth at least twice daily and floss every day. However, even after thoroughly cleaning your teeth, you will inevitably miss some areas. The whole point of cleaning your teeth is to remove plaque and food debris.

Dental plaque continually forms over tooth surfaces and is a sticky biofilm containing harmful bacteria that feed off leftover food particles trapped between and around your teeth after every meal. As these bacteria feed, they produce harmful toxins and acids that can damage your teeth, causing cavities and infecting and inflaming your gums, resulting in gum disease.

Plaque hardens into calculus or tartar in just two or three days and can no longer be brushed or flossed away. The presence of tartar makes it easier for more plaque to stick to your teeth, so the risk of dental problems increases. At the same time, tartar can look unattractive as it builds up around the gumline, forming a crusty layer that looks discolored and stained.

Having your teeth cleaned professionally removes all plaque and tartar buildup, including those hard-to-reach areas in between your teeth and right at the back of your mouth. Getting rid of this build up makes it easier for you to maintain a healthy mouth.

What Is a Teeth Cleaning?
Professional dental cleaning shouldn’t feel painful, and our experienced hygienists will first examine your mouth to check the general condition of your teeth and gums before using special ultrasonic dental tools to loosen calculus buildup. Once the calculus is loosened, it is scaled or scraped away using different dental tools. After all the calculus is removed, your teeth are carefully polished.

Polishing your teeth serves two purposes: it helps to smooth the cleaned surfaces, and the smoother surface makes it harder for new plaque to adhere. Dental polishing also helps remove some surface stains, so your teeth look a little brighter and sparkle once treatment is finished. Finally, your hygienist will carefully floss between each tooth to check all tartar is thoroughly removed.

Your hygienist will also discuss your dental health and make recommendations on improving your oral care routine. If you have questions, be sure to ask them, as dental education is an important part of our practice. We love educating our patients and empowering them to take control of their dental health.

How Long Does a Teeth Cleaning Take?
Teeth cleaning can take anywhere from half an hour to an hour to complete or longer if you have an extensive buildup of plaque and bacteria. Generally, someone with good dental health should allow an hour for a teeth cleaning and dental checkup appointment. After professional teeth cleaning, there is no downtime, and you can go about your everyday activities and eat and drink normally.

How Much Is a Teeth Cleaning?
A professional dental cleaning is quick and affordable, and if you have dental insurance, it’s almost certainly covered because it is a preventive dental service.

How Often Should I Get a Teeth Cleaning?
Most adults with reasonable dental health will benefit from six monthly dental cleanings, ideally at the same time as your dental checkup. However, some people with exceptionally good dental health may only need an annual dental cleaning, while others may benefit from more frequent hygiene visits.

For example, anyone with a medical condition that can impact their dental health and increase the risk of dental disease may be advised to have more frequent dental cleanings to protect their dental and general health. Someone with existing dental problems like gum disease may also benefit from more frequent dental cleanings.

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Compliance with all the rules of oral hygiene and the most careful monitoring of how the child brushes their teeth still doesn’t guarantee that you have managed to get rid of plaque. Therefore, every child needs professional teeth cleaning by a pediatric dentist.

Why Do Children Need Professional Dental Cleaning?

Contrary to popular belief, you need to take care of baby teeth,  because problems with baby teeth have a detrimental effect on the entire body. Problems with baby teeth affect the following organs:

• Adult teeth;
• Gastrointestinal tract;
• Respiratory organs;
• Kidneys.

Most dental problems begin with the formation of plaque, which concentrates a lot of bacteria that provoke the development of tooth decay. Plaque, if not removed, mineralizes very quickly, turning into tartar, which cannot be removed from the teeth at home.

Due to the characteristics of the child's body, children should brush their teeth more often than adults. If adults are recommended to do professional cleaning every six months, it is better to take children to a pediatric dentist to clean their teeth every 3-4 months.

Hygienic teeth cleaning is an absolutely safe and painless process, which is also useful because a child gets used to the fact that a visit to a pediatric dentist is not associated with pain and discomfort from childhood.

Benefits of Professional Teeth Cleaning for Children

Young children do not know how to properly brush their teeth and cannot remove all the plaque even if they try hard. As a result, it remains between the teeth, near the gums, and in other hard-to-reach places, which provokes the development of tooth decay and other oral cavity diseases. To solve this problem, brushing teeth at a pediatric dentist can help.

Benefits of regular professional dental hygiene:

• Cleaning from plaque and calculus of teeth and gum pockets;
• Reducing the risk of caries and gum disease;
• Enamel strengthening;
• Brightening the tone of the teeth by removing dark deposits;
• Painless procedure, thanks to which the child gets used to visiting the dentist.

Children's hygienic cleaning allows you to protect not only baby teeth, but also adult ones. First, the risk of developing tooth decay is reduced, which in children spreads rapidly and affects permanent teeth too. Secondly, it helps to avoid bite problems due to the destruction and premature loss of baby teeth. Proper oral hygiene protects against many dental problems.

How Children’s Professional Cleaning Is Carried Out

Professional teeth cleaning is carried out only by a pediatric dentist who is fluent in cleaning techniques and knows how to find an approach to a child or calm them down in an unusual environment of a dental office.

The procedure is safe and non-traumatic; if necessary, in order to eliminate even the slightest possible discomfort, a gel with an anesthetic effect can be applied to the child's gums.

For very young children, cleaning is carried out using special soft brushes. For older children, both manual cleaning and using the Air Flow apparatus are done. After cleaning, the teeth are polished and fluoridated.

How Often Should You Take Your Child to a Dentist?

Professional teeth cleaning is recommended for children on average once every six months. It allows you to eliminate plaque, which gradually forms on the teeth and is not removed during self-cleansing. This prevents the formation of tooth decay and other dental diseases.

Are There Any Contraindications to Professional Cleaning in Children? 

Professional teeth cleaning is not recommended for children who have:

• Too thin and fragile dental enamel;
• Erosion and hypoplasia of enamel;
• Stomatitis;
• Acute infectious diseases;
• Allergy to drugs that are used during cleaning.