re: Cost of dental deep cleaning

Use a Spinbrush. Cleans teeth better than anything I’ve seen. Use twice daily.

8 bucks.

I don’t have insurance & it’s around 100.00 with x rays

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I'm assuming you're talking about getting a scaling and root planing. That's way more involved than getting a normal cleaning. Since they have to actually clean underneath the gums very heavily it usually take a few visits to complete and requires local anesthetic. I've never had one myself, but I can ask my wife how much they charge for them at her office

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This is exactly the "deep" cleaning I'm talking about. They want to charge me $290 per quadrant and do it in 4 separate visits. So a total cost of $1,160.

I got a bad vibe from the hygienist that worked on me, so I guess that's why I'm questioning everything about this.

And it's not Aspen or any of the other dental mills, a single practice dentist in NOLA.

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Dental hygiene is a plant worker thing?

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Not hardly!

Plant mentality is.

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What? You bullshitting me? Do they break out the special tools for a deep cleaning?

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Not only special tools but sedation.

The normal little curved picks only reach about 1/8" below the gumline.

A "deep cleaning" they cut the gums away from teeth and sew them back after cleaning, scraping, spraying/washing as far as to the roots. Versed has been dripping the 2 times I had mine done.

The "4 quarters" is how they divide the work as in left top and bottom, or whole bottom and then a couple weeks later the other half. Otherwise there is too much pain and swelling to take in food even in liquid form. Even with a high level of pain tolerance I take the 7.5mg hydrocodone for 3 days minimum.

My Paternal side of the family has periodontal disease as a genetic trait. ALL of my grandparents descendants have it including my Dentist cousin and his 2 brothers.(casual chatting with both cousin and the oral surgeon he referred me led to accidental HIPAA violation revealing all of us as patients. we just don't mention that.) Considering my paternal grandparents had 10 kids we're talking now about 150 descendants that have issues.

At least we have better methods available than my Dads generation. They used to literally cut him open and scrape his mandible bone because they didn't have the knowledge, techniques, training, and tools available to catch it early enough.

My sister put hers off due to family/job/etc situation to the extent that her teeth will soon be falling out as no hope is her prognosis. She was the straight laced goody two shoes of the family always following the rules and brushing/flossing daily. Her teeth are great, it's the disease of the gums that does it.

TLDR: to answer OP about cost, mine is about $1500 each half or $3k whole mouth. Stock up on Jello and Pudding as well as soup stock, also noodles not rice (those grains will get stuck between your teeth once the swelling goes down)

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A "deep cleaning" they cut the gums away from teeth and sew them back after cleaning

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Man yours is more intense than most. My wife does maybe 2-3 deep cleanings a week and they never have to do that part. And they dont typically do IV drips either. Yours must be worst than most deep cleanings. Assuming you go to a periodontist for yours?

This reads like a horror story. Not like that soft core stuff, like Halloween or Nightmare on Elm Street. I mean like Hostel and Bone Tomahawk.

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Man yours is more intense than most. My wife does maybe 2-3 deep cleanings a week and they never have to do that part. And they dont typically do IV drips either. Yours must be worst than most deep cleanings. Assuming you go to a periodontist for yours?

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Best Oral Surgeon in the State. Keep in mind my cousin the dentist was not only the President of the State Dental Association but also the ADA for as long as he chose so he knows the best of the best nationwide. The same oral surgeon he sent his own immediate family to.

So while mine may be more intensive than most, it is about average for the extended family. That's with 2x daily power brushing, flossing, proxybrush, and softpicks.

(gotta watch the proxybrush, the little twisted wire holding the brushes is sharp where cutoff, got a nasty infection when distraction caused me to poke my gum instead of slipping between teeth. had to get opened and cleaned out which led to a 2nd infection from the sutures falling out of the sterile packaging and dragging across non sterile skin)


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This reads like a horror story. Not like that soft core stuff, like Halloween or Nightmare on Elm Street. I mean like Hostel and Bone Tomahawk.

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More like Dustin Hoffman scene in Marathon Man.

Just finished this not long ago. Cost me $120 per visit and that was with insurance.

Met life patient getting a srp right now. All 4 quads. No laser treatment.

Fee=$496
Ins=$340.80
Pat=$155.20