How is ultrasound used in professional teeth cleaning: the features of the procedure and prices

Professional cleaning of teeth by ultrasound - a procedure that allows you to remove from teeth hard dental deposits and pigmented plaque.At home, such a procedure can not be carried out, so it is conducted in the dental office.

At home using a toothbrush and paste, can be maxi- mized to get rid of soft plaque .However, if the soft plaque is not cleaned in time, then after a while it will turn into tartar.In human saliva contains calcium salts, which promote the mineralization of soft plaque and its transformation into tartar.

Many people think that if you do not clean the day, nothing terrible will happen.This is a big mistake.Soft coatings pass the stage of primary mineralization in just 12 hours.And for different people for different reasons this time can be even shorter.It turns out that if the teeth were not cleaned in time, then in half a day a layer of mineralized deposits appears on the enamel, which can not be cleaned with a conventional toothbrush.

A thin layer of mineralized deposits

makes the enamel rough .On such a surface, new deposits fall even faster.The rate of appearance of calculus is repeatedly increased.This is explained by the fact that on a rough surface microorganisms are much easier to gain a foothold.

Professional cleaning rules

The removal of tartar is always carried out in two stages:

1. Removal of solid mineral deposits.
2. Polishing of enamel.It is necessary to restore to it smoothness, so that it would be difficult for micro-organisms and soft deposits to gain a foothold on its surface.For this reason, polishing teeth is an indispensable stage of any kind of professional cleaning.

It is best to do a professional cleaning of teeth using ultrasound.But polishing should be carried out mechanically with the help of special brushes and pastes.By its mechanism, the second stage resembles the usual brushing of teeth with an electric brush.

The is often polished using AirFlow technology.With the help of a special apparatus, a mixture of water, air and abrasive is applied to the tooth enamel, due to which its surface is polished.

Removal of tartar by ultrasound

As mentioned above, the use of ultrasound is the first stage of professional tooth cleaning.To conduct this procedure, a special dental unit is used, called the ultrasound scaler.

This device has a special working nozzle, the finest tip of which is able to oscillate with an ultrasonic frequency.The photo of this nozzle can be easily found on the Internet.To increase the safety of the procedure, an antiseptic is applied to the tip of the nozzle.The latter during the procedure is removed from the oral cavity with the help of a saliva ejector.

During the ultrasonic cleaning, the removal of deposits and the pigmented layer occurs due to two main processes:

1. The oscillating nozzle of an ultrasonic scaler is usually destroyed by the mechanical action of tartar.In this case, the dentist brings the tip of the device to the teeth so that vibrational movements are made along its surface.This allows you to completely clean its surface without destroying the enamel.
2. Removal of the destroyed deposits occurs due to the process of cavitation.Water or antiseptic, supplied to the instrument's nozzle, are saturated with minute air bubbles under the influence of oscillations with a frequency of 25 to 50 kHz, which bursting give additional energy, which allows to destroy the bacterial film on the enamel and root.

Advantages of ultrasonic cleaning

Ultrasound has many advantages over other types of professional teeth cleaning.But there is no point in talking about all of them.It is worth mentioning only 3 main advantages:

1. Versatility and high quality.With the help of an ultrasonic scaler, you can get rid of any contamination: pigmentation, tartar, soft deposits.Moreover, the deposits located both above the gum and under it are removed.Usually at devices for ultrasonic cleaning in the complete set is available at once some nozzles.A short nozzle is suitable for removing massive solid deposits.Thin and long nozzles are suitable for work at the root and in periodontal pockets.The quality of cleaning is beyond praise.There are numerous photos on the Internet confirming this.
2. Ultrasonic cleaning has a pronounced bactericidal effect.This is very important when cleaning teeth in patients with periodontal pockets.It's no secret that it is in them that most of the infection accumulates.Using ultrasound and antiseptic, you can remove all pathogenic microflora from the periodontal.
3. Painless and accessible.When cleaning teeth ultrasound, patients, as a rule, do not experience pain.A small vibration does not cause unpleasant sensations.If the patient still feels pain during cleaning, it is not related to the cleaning process, but to the increased sensitivity of the neck of the teeth due to the development of periodontitis.When a patient complains of pain, he is given a local anesthetic.As for accessibility, it is obvious.For cleaning one tooth by ultrasound, dentists ask for only 80 - 100 rubles.

If blood appears in the cleaning process, then this need not be feared.The fact is, under the dental calculus the gum is always in a swollen state and the is prone to bleeding .Therefore, slight bleeding during ultrasonic cleaning is not uncommon.As soon as the whole stone is removed from bleeding, there will be no trace.

Disadvantages of ultrasonic teeth cleaning

There are no drawbacks with the technology itself, in fact, there are none.There are drawbacks concerning the ultrasonic scalers themselves and the skills of specialists.

• Unfortunately, in dental clinics you can find both new ultrasonic cleaning machines( with them there are no problems) and old ones, the use of which can lead to damage to the enamel.In addition, small private clinics can not afford expensive equipment, so management buys cheap sound and magnetostriction scalers.They also generate oscillatory waves at the ultrasonic frequency, but the movement of the working nozzles in them has a circular shape.Such movements are guaranteed to damage the enamel of the tooth.
• After ultrasonic cleaning, various complications may occur.The technology itself is nothing to do with.Complications appear after a dentist's mistake.The most common mistake is missing the periodontal pockets during the procedure, which become a source of inflammatory processes.

Tooth polishing

This procedure completes the professional cleaning of teeth by ultrasound.As already mentioned above, polishing is carried out by by means of special brushes and abrasive pastes.

After polishing, if desired, the dentist can do tooth fluoridation.This procedure is not mandatory, but it helps to reduce sensitivity.It's no secret that after any procedure of professional cleaning, the teeth become hypersensitive for a couple of days.In addition, fluoridation protects against caries.

Price for professional tooth cleaning by ultrasound

The cost of the procedure depends on the segment in which the clinic is operated, in which the patient addressed, as well as the rules for calculating the price.The price for cleaning teeth by ultrasound can be calculated by the principle of all-inclusive or for one tooth.In the latter case, the cost of processing one tooth is usually equal to 100 rubles .

When calculating the price of the procedure on an "all inclusive" basis, the cost of polishing and fluoridation of teeth is taken into account.Therefore, the price for ultrasonic teeth processing is an average of 2,500 - 3,000 rubles.But this is in the regions.In the capital for the same procedure in inexpensive clinics will have to give a minimum of 4,300 rubles.