To help get you started, we're sharing best practices about the 5 steps of the cleaning process: prepare, clean, sanitize, check, and reset.
The treatment usually involves careful cleaning below the gums, decontaminating the roots of the teeth to encourage the gums to reattach. This should be performed under local anaesthetic and typically requires up to four sessions with a periodontist or specially trained hygienist.
A deep teeth cleaning should take between 1-4 hours. First, your hygienist will numb you by injecting a local anesthetic. Sometimes, the hygienist will need one hour per quadrant to do the proper scaling and root planing of all the root surfaces in one quadrant.
Deep cleans involve a complete rubdown and giving attention to the often neglected and hard-to-reach spots. Anything inside your home that can be reached with a stool will be hand-wiped. Besides the in-depth approach, this type of cleaning also improves the overall sanitation and livability of your living space.
The specific cleaning procedure and products used may vary depending on what and where you are cleaning, but, generally, there will be six stages of cleaning that will ensure you completely disinfect contaminated surfaces.
The six daily tasks include making the bed, washing dishes, scrubbing the sink, wiping down counters, vacuuming floors and doing a load of laundry. On top of those are 10 weekly tasks, which the Tiktoker says she does on one day of the week.
Things to Avoid after Deep Cleaning
Refrain from eating sharp, crunchy, and challenging foods on the day of the procedure. For 48 hours after the procedure, refrain from having hot beverages.
Deep teeth cleaning is usually completed over two appointments. This is because your dentist will use local anesthetic to numb and treat one side of your mouth in each appointment. Numbing the entire mouth would make it difficult to talk or eat or drink after your appointment.
Will my dentist put me to sleep for deep root cleaning? Dentists do not use general anesthesia on patients for deep cleaning the teeth. Sensitive patients, however, may need oral sedation. Dentists can also use local anesthetics and nitrous oxide to limit the discomfort of the procedure.
The disadvantages of deep cleaning teeth include nerve damage and potential infections if you have a compromised immune system. The cleaning might cause pain, and sensitivity in the treatment doesn't guarantee reattachment of your gums to the teeth. The cleaning might even cause further gum recession.
On average, it takes anywhere from 5 to 7 days for the gums to heal after a deep cleaning. While your mouth is healing, you may experience some bleeding and swelling of the gums.
Within a week the gums will start to heal and reattach to the roots of the teeth. The initial discomfort should be gone. Full recovery and reattachment can take up to 6 or 8 weeks, but patients are usually back to normal eating, drinking, brushing, and flossing within the first week.
1. Clean it up sooner rather than later. Spills and stains are generally much easier to clean up when you attack them right away. If you a treat a stain without delay it offers little resistance, but wait until the next day and it'll be much tougher to get out.
Bathrooms and kitchens are known as 'wet areas'. These often take the most time to clean. That's why they should be first in the order you clean your house. Once you've done step 1 and 3, dust everything and then get down to work in your bathrooms and kitchen.
Clean each room from top to bottom.
Follow the top-to-bottom rule of cleaning every room, and knock dust and debris from curtains, bookshelves, lampshades, and mantles onto the floor as you work your way down, says Leslie Reichert, aka The Cleaning Coach, then vacuum it up after.