re: Cost of dental deep cleaning

Most responses in this thread are shitty takes.

"Deep cleaning" is the more general and understandable term for a procedure called scaling and root planing. This is to treat periodontal disease. This is NOT the same "prophy" cleaning your insurance covers twice a year.

The person that got the incisions, flaps, and sutures to the gums had an even more in depth cleaning called surgical scaling and root planing, a different, more expensive procedure.

And, if your getting a surgical scaling and root planing, don't go to the "best" oral surgeon in the state. Go to a periodontist. I doubt ANY oral surgeon is doing scaling and root planing, much less the "best" in the state.