Periodontal Deep Cleaning
What is Deep Cleaning?
In dentistry, Periodontal deep cleaning is often referred to as scaling and root planing. According to the NIDCR, scaling entails eliminating plaque and tartar from the teeth’s surface and the space between them and the gums. Dental hygienists can use electrical, ultrasonic, or manual scaling tools to do scaling and root planning.
Root planning is the second phase of a deep clean. Our dental hygienist will use the latest scaling tool to remove plaque and tartar from your tooth roots’ surface. At least two appointments are necessary for the root planning procedure. It might be required to schedule a follow-up appointment to ensure that your teeth and gums are maintaining their health and that there is no depth.
Benefits of scaling and root planing
- Teeth were free of bacterial infections.
- Deep and effective dental cleaning.
- Whiter teeth in a single session.
- Goodbye, dental tartar.
- Reduction or complete elimination of those known as bags.
- It favors periodontal pathology.
- Essential to treat infectious conditions, such as pyorrhea.
- Reduces the chance of losing teeth.
- Helps keep gums healthy.
- Prevents the alveolar bone from suffering the consequences of oral infections.
Periodontal deep cleaning study
Before planning dental curettage or scaling, it is important to carry out a complete periodontal study. The specialist in periodontics is responsible for carrying out this analysis. Our periodontist can design a personalized periodontal treatment plan through a series of imaging tests and a complete oral review.
The periodogram, also known as periodontal probing, is essential to analyze how far periodontal pathology has come. This technique provides us with quality information about periodontal pockets, their exact location, size and the depth at which they are found. With all this, it will be much easier to perform the curettage.
Curettage or scraping
To correctly eliminate the bacteria, it is important to perform a good curettage or scraping. To reach all the infected areas well, curettes are used. What this technique assures us is that the deepest infections are properly eliminated.
Depending on the case and condition of each patient, we may have to design selective curettages in the future to improve the final result of periodontal treatment.
How does dental cleaning work?
Most people will know the basics of dental hygiene. When only a quick cleaning is needed, dentists can use polishers, air jets, and mechanical scrapers to remove plaque and other types of debris. Dentists can apply abrasive toothpaste during these treatments using a special electric toothbrush. Additionally, they can floss thoroughly between each tooth, and fluoride-based gels can be administered. After wearing, these usually sit behind the mouthguards for a while to prevent cavities. However, a “deeper” cleansing method can produce effects that last longer.
Procedure and Process Treatment
The first step in receiving a deep teeth cleaning is scheduling a dental deep cleaning consultation. The dentist will look for any tooth or gum damage and see how much plaque has built up and turned your teeth yellow. They will advise you to have "root planing" if they are convinced that additional cleaning is necessary below the gum line.
1. Preparation
Before your procedure, you should eat well and stay away from things that can leave "debris" at the gum line. Besides, patients might be instructed to floss deeply. You might need to stop drinking for a few days before the surgery if anesthesia is needed.
2. Tartar Removal
Before starting root planing treatment, our dentist will do many of the things listed above that are used for simple teeth cleaning. Our dentists will remove plaque and dirt from the backs of your teeth and other areas where you haven't been brushing or flossing regularly.
3. Treatment
Before the gums are carefully pulled away from the tooth, local anesthesia is put on the area. We use a hook-shaped scraper to remove deposits from the roots of your teeth. After that, we polish the affected areas to eliminate periodontitis-related imperfections.
4. Disinfectant
To eliminate dangerous microorganisms, it could occasionally be essential to use disinfection treatments. Dentists may use antibiotic treatments like chlorhexidine gluconate to "irrigate" the gum regions. As a follow-up step, antibiotics may also be recommended.
Dental Curettage or Scaling
Dental curettage or scaling and root planing is a treatment that we perform at the clinic. Virginia Dental Care, when our patients need deep oral prophylaxis. This technique is essential to eliminate bacterial plaque and dental tartar on the teeth’ surface and under the gum line. What we achieve is to eliminate harmful microorganisms which can cause dental injuries.
There are bacteria in the mouth, which must always be successfully eliminated. To do this, oral hygiene techniques are performed at home and in the dentist’s office. In this way, the bacterial plaque is finished. But, when teeth are not cleaned well, that plaque or oral biofilm becomes dental tartar.
Tartar, for its part, cannot be removed simply with oral hygiene at home but requires professional dental cleaning tools. Therefore, if you have tartar on your teeth, you should undergo a gastrectomy at the dental clinic. Dental curettage or scraping is the most appropriate treatment to remove accumulations of dental tartar located at the subgingival level.
How do we do teeth root scaling?
In our dental clinic in Virginia, we plan dental curettage or scaling when we detect severe oral infections, which could put the health of the teeth at risk. Therefore, this oral hygiene or prophylaxis technique is part of our dental office’s periodontal treatments custom design. His goal is to eliminate gingivitis and treat periodontitis successfully.
Dental curettage or scaling and root planing are part of the most frequent periodontal treatments. This deep professional dental cleaning is usually planned when bacteria have colonized the periodontal tissues. If we want to end the bacterial infection, it is necessary to thoroughly remove the tartar that has formed under the gums; this treatment is essential.
Sometimes, as a consequence of pyorrhea, periodontal pockets are formed. They are accumulations of bacteria in the form of a bag in the periodontal tissues. Eliminating them is very important to avoid the loss of the diseased tooth. Therefore, dental curettage is an essential solution.
This conservative treatment is planned to measure in our dental clinic in Virginia. Also, dental scaling or curettage does not hurt because it is done with local anaesthesia. In this way, we can be sure that the process will be easy.
Normally, the way to deeply clean the mouth is by dividing it into four quadrants, two in each dental arched. Subgingival and supragingival bacteria are removed during the cleaning of each of these quadrants. Then, depending on the needs of each patient, the curettage will be carried out in sessions of one or two quadrants each.