How to Prepare Yourself for Dental Deep Cleaning?

How often do you visit your dentist in Orlando? Dental checkups and cleanings should be every six months.

Sometimes, patients wait too long to visit a dental professional, and when they do, the plaque and calculus are beneath the gum line. If this happens to you, you might need deep teeth cleaning near you.

Deep dental cleaning near you is a procedure in which your dentist or a periodontics dentist near you uses special tools to remove bacteria from the roots of your teeth to reduce the inflammation of your gums.

Gum Disease

If you don't go for a dental cleaning in Orlando, you can experience gum bleeding when you brush and floss your teeth. If you do, it means that your gums are inflamed (gingivitis) due to plaque. If untreated, plaque hardens and becomes calculus. You can't remove calculus with a standard dental brushing.

Calculus or tartar build-up can worsen the inflammation of the gums and cause your gum line to pull away from the tooth, forming pockets. When this happens, teeth lose their support and start shifting. 

In graver stages (periodontitis), there is jawbone and connective tissue loss, and you can even lose one or many dental pieces. 

Treatment of Gum Disease

To avoid gum disease, you should go for teeth cleaning in Orlando regularly. If you already have it, you need a root scaling and planing. Your dentist will use a dental scaler to remove the plaque from your teeth and beneath the gum line, and an ultrasonic device that has a metal tip to scrape the tartar away. Root planing achieves a smooth surface of your roots so that bacteria won’t get trapped.

Over time, your gums will reattach to your teeth, and you will achieve a healthy mouth.

Signs That You Need Root Scaling and Planing

• Gum redness

• Bleeding gums during dental brushing and flossing

• Longer teeth (due to receding gums)

• Tender gums

What Can You Expect from the Treatment?

Let your dentist know if you have any medical conditions or take any medications that can interfere with the treatment.

If there is no need for special care, your dentist will administer a local anesthetic to numb your gums, so you don’t feel any pain during the scraping of the calculus. The treatment is done in a single appointment unless the infection is severe, and your periodontist decides that it is better to treat one quadrant per visit.

It is common to feel some discomfort afterward since your nubs will be a little bit tender, but you can manage it with any over-the-counter pain medication.

After the Procedure

You may experience the following symptoms for the first two days up to two weeks after treatment:

• Mild bleeding when you brush your teeth.

• Sensitivity to hot or cold food or drinks.

• Tenderness.

To alleviate symptoms, your dentist may advise you to rinse your mouth with a mouth wash, and take over-the-counter painkillers, such as Acetaminophen or Ibuprofen.

If the discomfort lasts longer than two weeks, visit your periodontist as soon as possible.

Make sure not to skip your follow-up appointments. You will likely have to visit your periodontist after one month, and again three months after. Since then, you may have to go for cleanings every three months to promote healing.

Once your gums are pink and firm again, you may schedule your checkups every six months instead of three.

If you have any other questions, feel free to contact our dental offices. We have a team of caring specialists that will be looking forward to helping you achieve a healthy mouth.