What is deep cleaning for your teeth?!

What is deep cleaning for your teeth?

what do they do when they do deep cleaning and put medicine for tartar? Do they just clean your teeth like normally and than appyl some creme on your teeeth and stuff?

2 weeks ago
oh yeah...does it hurt?

2 weeks ago
oh mann! im so scared now...i have to get shots? do the shots hurt?

i just had all of my quadrants deep cleaned after not going to the dentist for awhile - bad on my part!

the dentist will swab your mouth with a local anesthetic, then follow up with shots. the biggest difference between a deep clean and a regular cleaning is that the shots allow the dentist to clean tartar and plaque buildup below the gum line with a scraper.

any big buildup they will take off with a drill.

doesn't hurt at all, despite what others have told me. lower jaw tends to be more built-up/difficult than the uppers.


EDIT:
mine didn't hurt at all, but my dentist is very gentile. once they swab w/ the initial anesthetic you can't actually feel the shots at all. and then they wait for you to "numb up" before they start scraping.