re: Cost of dental deep cleaning

I agree with you and don’t deny that many of your patients probably do need the service and it is justified.

My point, however, is that SRP is oftentimes over-diagnosed and, as a patient, if you feel you go in for cleanings regularly and have pretty normal at-home oral hygiene, and you are still told you need SRP, it could be in your interest to get a second opinion. I see it happen routinely.

Now that’s not to say you can’t have the outlier case where genetics still overcome OH practices, or you have the antiquated dentist who is 80 and neglects perio because of how he was trained when he was in school. Obviously THAT also happens and a lot of those patients are denture cases waiting to happen.