Dental Cleaning and Scaling – Eliminate the First Sign of Cavities and Tooth Decay
A regular dental teeth cleaning completes your everyday basic oral hygiene routine. Through regular cleanings and visits to our clinic, your dentist can remove plaque and tartar build-up that brushing and flossing alone cannot.
At Hyland Dental, we use the most advanced techniques and instruments for dental scaling to ensure a professional deep cleaning of your teeth and gums. Our dentists take great care to ensure a gentle but thorough clean, and exercise caution around inflamed gums and sensitive teeth. Here’s how:
Inspection: Your dentist or hygienist will inspect your mouth to make sure your gums are not bleeding or inflamed, as well as confirm that you don’t have infections, sores, and other dental problems that require immediate treatment.
Cleaning agent: Your dental hygienist will apply a cleaning agent to free up deep-seated plaque in between the teeth and along the gumline for cleaning.
Dental scaling: Using industry-standard instruments, your hygienist will scale and scrape along the teeth and gums to remove built-up plaque and prevent cavities from setting in.
Flossing: Your hygienist will floss in between each tooth to ensure a thorough cleaning and permanent removal of built-up plaque.
Dental fluoride treatment: Your dentist may recommend a dental fluoride treatment to complete the cleaning, strengthen the teeth’s enamel, and prevent further cavities.
Next visit: Once your dental cleaning is complete, your dentist will inform you of warning signs for serious oral conditions, and remind you of good oral hygiene habits. You can also ask questions about your oral health, and book your next dental cleaning and check-up to keep your smile healthy.
Dental Exam – Learn About Your Oral Health
During your visit to our clinic, our dentists will also perform a dental exam to monitor your oral health, and detect problems early on. A dental exam is part of your preventative dental care routine, along with teeth cleaning. Using x-rays and visual inspection, we can check for signs of cavities, tooth decay, or injury, and screen for oral health problems like oral cancer.
Hyland Dental offers a comprehensive dental exam:
Full periodontal exam of the gums and jawbones
Complete examination of the teeth and surfaces
Examination of the head, mouth, throat, and temporomandibular joint (TMJ)
Occlusal exam to test your bite
Digital dental x-ray and scans
Complete salivary exam
Aesthetic exam of the overall appearance of the teeth and jawbone in relation to your facial features.
Aside from your regular dental cleaning and screening, we also perform an exam to prepare for:
A free Invisalign consultation
Cosmetic dentistry treatments, including veneers, crowns, fillings, teeth whitening, and other restorations
Dental implants and dentures.
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Our clinic is conveniently located in London, and fully equipped to provide preventative dental care.
Bring the entire family to our family-friendly clinic, and help protect the oral health of your loved ones, starting at a young age. Trust our experienced, patient-focused dentists to provide teeth cleaning and complete dental care.
When was the last time you booked a dental cleaning? Call Hyland Dental to schedule your teeth cleaning and exam today, and trust us to keep your smile healthy.
Hyland Dental is your partner in oral hygiene and health. From teeth cleaning to emergency care, Hyland Dental will take care of you and your family. Our dentists offer dental cleaning — a professional deep clean of your pearly whites.
Get your teeth cleaned by the experts, and your smile protected for years. Book a dental cleaning at our clinic today, and trust our dentists with your oral health.
What a Professional Teeth Cleaning Appointment Actually Involves
Brushing and flossing remove plaque, the soft film that forms on teeth every day. What they cannot remove is calculus, the hardened deposit that forms when plaque is left in place and mineralises against the enamel and below the gum line. Once that has set, no toothbrush will shift it. A professional teeth cleaning exists to deal with that hardened layer, and to find the early problems that are far cheaper to treat now than later.
Most of the appointment is spent below the gum line, where brushing cannot reach.
Assessment and gum measurements
The visit starts with a look at the gums rather than the teeth. Pocket depths are measured at several points around each tooth, and bleeding on gentle probing is recorded. Those two numbers tell us whether you have healthy gums, reversible gingivitis, or periodontitis that has begun to affect the bone. The answer changes how often you should come back.
Scaling and removing hardened tartar
Deposits are removed with a combination of ultrasonic instruments, which break up bulk calculus with high-frequency vibration and water, and hand instruments for the fine work along the root surface. If your gums are inflamed, this part can be tender; local anaesthetic or a topical gel is available and worth asking for rather than enduring. Patients who find any dental work difficult can also read about our sedation dentistry options.
Polishing, flossing and fluoride
Polishing removes surface stain and leaves the enamel smooth, which slows how quickly new plaque attaches. A fluoride varnish or foam is then applied to strengthen the enamel, particularly useful if you have sensitivity, dry mouth, or a history of decay. Fluoride is not the same as teeth whitening, which is a separate cosmetic treatment; polishing removes stain but does not lighten the natural shade of the tooth.
What happens between appointments decides how easy the next one will be.
How often should you book
Six months is a convention, not a rule. Patients with healthy gums, no bleeding and shallow pockets often do well on a nine or twelve month interval. Smokers, people with diabetes, patients in orthodontic treatment or wearing Invisalign, those with crowns and bridges, and anyone with a history of gum disease usually need three or four month intervals to stay stable. The interval should be set by your gum measurements, not by habit.
Signs you are overdue
Bleeding when you brush is the earliest and most ignored signal. Persistent bad breath, gums that look puffy or have receded, a change in how a bite feels, sensitivity to cold along the gum line, or a rough ledge you can feel with your tongue behind the lower front teeth all point the same way. Gum disease is largely painless until it is advanced, which is precisely why it is missed. If a tooth is already painful or broken, that is a different pathway, covered on our emergency dental page.
A soft brush, fluoride paste and floss do more than any expensive gadget.
Protecting the results at home
Use a soft brush for two minutes twice a day, clean between the teeth once a day with floss or interdental brushes, and use a fluoride toothpaste without rinsing it away immediately afterwards. Hard brushing does not clean better; it wears enamel and pushes gums back. The Canadian Dental Association publishes plain-language guidance on daily care, and the Royal College of Dental Surgeons of Ontario sets the infection-control standards every clinic in the province follows.
Cleaning for children and teens
Children benefit from the same visit at a gentler pace, with fluoride and sometimes sealants on the biting surfaces of new molars. Teenagers in braces need shorter intervals because appliances trap plaque. Coverage for children may be available through the federal dental plan; details are on the Canadian Dental Care Plan page.
