 Hello everybody Andrea here, so I have been a dental professional for about 17 years, I have my own mobile dental hygiene practice, so. I want to talk to you guys about what is the cost of dental teeth cleanings, because I can ask this question, all the time. There is definitely a range so even for new patients for me, that is typically the first question people ask is how much do you charge. For a teeth cleaning and I explain it does vary and i'm going to show you guys some pictures in a moment of why. A dental professional will tell you it does vary, we need to see when person to really know. We can give you an idea, depending on certain things you tell us, and that is how long has it been since your last cleaning. If it's been 10 years it's going to cost you more for us to clean your teeth opposed to somebody who comes every six months because there's going to be less plaque less tartar less stain. Somebody who comes more often hopefully won't have any gingivitis hopefully they won't have any periodontal disease, so those are basically. Infections inside the mouth that can happen if you don't take care of your teeth gums properly by regular teeth cleanings but having that said if it's been 10 years. We are just so happy to see you we're not going to make you feel bad if it's been 20 years if you've never had your team clean be. Before we are going to work with you hopefully work out a payment plan, so you can have your teeth cleaned and things are going to look amazing Okay, so let me share some pictures with you. How much a teeth cleaning would be and why okay so i'm going to switch the slide here, so. This is an extreme example and actually you guys before I continue, let me say if you're a little bit squeamish, this is one of the easier dirty teeth pictures okay. They can get pretty bad sometimes, so if you're a bit squeamish I guess beware. Or you might not want to watch this I don't know it doesn't get much worse than this, but this is just kind of a little taste of it Okay, so look at these photos. If your teeth look like this you're going to pay more to get your teeth cleaned than if your teeth look like this notice the difference now this isn't just teeth cleaning, by the way, they need. Some more work done because they have cavities they have stain a teeth cleaning won't get rid of cavities Okay, so if you have cavities that look like this. We can only do so much with the cleaning anyway, but just to kind of show you guys the difference Okay, so the next slide. If your teeth look like this this isn't so bad, but notice how there is more stain on the bottom there's tartar. or calculus, some of us call it tartar some of us call it calculus, it means the same thing plaque on the bottom Okay, so the more plaque tartar calculus stain you have. It takes us longer to clean the teeth, we need to use different instruments we're cleaning above the gum line below the gum line the gums might have a lot of bleeding so that takes us longer it depends on how difficult the case is so. What I tell my clients is I do have quite a range I let them know it could literally be 100 and and you know $80 or it could be $400 I know that's quite a range so 180 is usually the cheapest. 400 if you have extreme stuff going on i'm working hard for like the full hour I can't see we're taking off like 20 years of staying. it's going to cost you different right, but the nice thing what I like to offer my patients is if I have a patient that says. Can you do as much as you can I have $200 that's as much as I can afford right now, can you do as much as you can absolutely. So what I do is I, I will do as much as I can of what the client can see, so I would take away this you know staying first. I might not work at the teeth at the back, because I might not be able to get that far with that amount of time and that amount of money. That the patient has you know, so I kind of work on the the areas that they can see because, as a as a patient. You wouldn't be very happy with me if I clean the back teeth it cost you $200. And you said oh I thought you were going to get rid of the same here why didn't you do that it doesn't even look like I had my teeth cleaned. I might have been working hard for that full hour, but you don't care you want your stain removed, so I will do that first, so I do work with payment plans. Another photo just to show you guys, so this is a very light amount of stain. This is a child to by the way, because you can see the teeth are coming in here, but this would be easier to clean. Then this you know, so this with this amount of stain depending on how easy it is to take off might cost $100 maybe even less like it's hard to say, to be honest with you. Without seeing it inside the mouth how things look so this is going to cost less than this, this is going to cause more because there's more going on, so you guys just that makes sense. Another slide here so gingivitis and perio these are gum infection, so we don't just look at the teeth. We look at the tissues around the teeth, but notice how there's a little bit of redness here there's a lot of redness here if we see this. That usually means there's plaque and tartar stuck underneath the guns, so you might be looking at this picture and saying oh the teeth look pretty good what's the big deal that's not going to cost too much. And I might think the same thing right, but then when I look at the tissues around the teeth I go there's a big it's puffy here. It should never be puffy that usually means something's wrong there's plaque and tartar underneath. there's some redness here, so we have to clean underneath the gums as well, we don't just clean the teeth here. If we just did that your tissues would be puffy red swollen you would have gum. Infection everywhere not cool, so we also clean underneath the gums so just because things might look okay you don't have staying limited plaque there might be a lot hiding underneath the gums it depends on. If you're using mouthwash what toothpaste how often you brush the foods you're eating, so we look at a lot of things so just to quickly show you guys again. This would cost different than this, we have this we have this and then there you go so. But please keep in mind, we will never think Oh, this person's teeth are dirty you what is wrong with you. we're not going to lecture you we're not going to yell at you, I guess I can't speak for every dental professional. But I don't do that I make it a point to tell every new patient or even if there's just patients asking questions like hey Andrea. I just want to know how much do things cost, are you okay if I haven't been in for like two years or 20 years. I would love to see that is my job is to clean the teeth, I personally do the very best I can to work with your. What your budget is if you if you have insurance you don't have insurance it doesn't matter I work with what you can afford. And we go from there, so let me know you guys, if you have any questions, I hope that helps to shed some light on why some people's teeth. are easier to clean why some people's mouths are harder to clean and why it's really hard for us to give you a cost estimate so let me know. If any questions, thank you guys so much for watching click like on this video because that does help to support me, I would really appreciate it, you guys are awesome and we'll talk to you very, very soon.