 Hello everybody, Andrea Trotsky here with Dental Tutoring. So whether you are a patient or a student just wanting to know the difference, I'm going to talk to you guys about the difference between a dentist and a dental hygienist doing the cleaning. So for a lot of patients, you might be used to having the dentist always do your cleaning. So then when you go to a new office because you move or your dentist retires or something, you might be surprised to find that, oh, the dentist isn't doing my cleaning. It's the hygienist. What the heck is happening here? But that's actually normal. It's more normal to have the dental hygienist clean your teeth than it is the dentist. And I'll tell you why. Now I have been a dental hygienist for a number of years. I was a dental assistant first. So I've been in the dental profession for 13 years, almost 14 actually. And I became a restorative hygienist two years ago. So I do know a little bit about this. But the dentist, it's not that they're not qualified to clean your teeth because I guess they are. But if you think about it, the dental hygienists, they will go to school for two years or more to learn specifically how to clean your teeth. Whereas a dentist has to learn how to do surgery. They have to take out teeth. They have to learn how to give needles, how to get anesthetic. They have to learn how to do a composite filling, a melancholy filling, crown bridges, all kinds of things, right? So would you rather go to somebody who learns specifically how to clean your teeth or have a dentist clean your teeth? They have other things to do. They have other things to do. If you're a child, I mean for a child to have their teeth cleaned, all you're pretty much doing is polishing and light cleaning with the instruments. So for a child, their tartar isn't underneath the gum line too much. But for an adult where there's tartar all underneath the gum line, it's black, brown, it's pretty thick, you need certain skills to be able to clean that properly and clean it effectively. Now a dentist will learn how to clean the teeth for about a week or two weeks. And I'm not just saying this out of nowhere. I have known at least four dentists who have gone to school and that's what they say. They learn how to scale the teeth in about two weeks. Sometimes it's one week, sometimes it's two weeks depending on where they go to school. So would you rather have a dentist clean your teeth who has learned how to do it for two weeks or would you prefer to have a dental hygienist do it who has learned for two years and seen countless number of patients? So I'm not saying that they're doing anything wrong because I'm sure they're not. But that's kind of like me doing something that I do once every couple of years. You wouldn't want me doing that. You would want somebody else doing it who does it every single day. So it's kind of the same for a dentist and a dental hygienist. You would like the dentist to be doing things that they do every day that they're specifically trained to do. Whereas the dental hygienist, you want them to be cleaning your teeth because they know exactly what they're doing. They do it all day, every day they're trained and they just know how to do it properly. So does that make sense you guys? So that's just kind of the difference between a dentist and a dental hygienist cleaning your teeth. So if you guys have questions, let me know. But either or is great, but I prefer a dental hygienist clean my teeth because that is specifically what they do. Okay, so thank you so much for watching.