Dental Hygiene

We will work alongside you to provide a personalised plan of how best to maintain your smile and prevent future damage. After reviewing your current hygiene routine.

Why do I need to see a dental hygienist?

Regular visits to your hygienist puts you in the best position for detecting any oral health problems before they become symptomatic or require treatment.

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Routine Cleaning

Prevention is better than cure and identifying early signs of tooth decay or gum inflammation enables your practitioner to address the problem swiftly.

As well as a thorough scale and polish, your dental hygienist will also provide a complete check of your overall oral health. Your Ashburton hygienist will get to know you and provide you with tailored, individual advice on how to maintain the best oral health, from diet to dental care.

Benefits of seeing a hygienist are:

Hygienists are trained to thoroughly clean your teeth and gums

You will leave with a fresher, cleaner smile

Scale & polish will remove harmful plaque and deposits of tartar

Helps prevent periodontal (gum) disease by making a hygiene visit part of your dental care regime

What To Expect During your Hygiene appointment

An appointment with your local dental hygienist will involve an initial oral hygiene check up, followed by a ‘scaling’ procedure. This is where any build up of harmful plaque and tartar is carefully and gently removed from the surface of your teeth and around the gum line using scalers and curettes, which are specially designed tools to check scrape away soft deposits.

Hand-held mirrors help your hygienist to spot those missed areas and pinpoint plaque build up. Following a good clean and analysis of overall gum health, they will give your teeth a shine and polish with a gentle, quiet air polisher to remove any superficial stains. In cases where there is decay, a hygienist may apply fluoride or an antibacterial gel.

What our patients say about Moor Dental & Implant Clinic.

Moor dental very kindly juggled appointments so that they could fit me in at short notice to have a filling done. As usual Catherine the dentist worked her magic, very quickly and efficiently, never had a problem at this practice.