Of course not, regular scaling does not cause damage to the teeth.
Some people think that scaling teeth is the use of instrumental grinding to grind the calculus, which will grind to the surface of the teeth and cause harm to the teeth. This statement is incorrect.
There are two ways to clean your teeth regularly, without causing wear and tear on the surface of your teeth:
One is ultrasonic flossing, which crushes and shakes the calculus attached to the tooth surface through ultrasonic vibration;
The other is a manual tooth cleaning, which scrapes the calculus on the tooth surface by hand with a scraping instrument.
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In addition, the polishing process after cleaning will not wear out the teeth.
After washing the teeth, there will be some small scratches on the surface of the teeth that are invisible to the naked eye, and the presence of these scratches makes the surface of the teeth rougher and easier to attach some dirty things, so it is necessary to polish after cleaning.
Polishing is to use a very soft polishing wheel dipped in polishing paste to rotate at a low speed on the surface of the tooth, so that the tooth surface is smooth and without notch, so that the tooth surface is not easy to accumulate plaque tartar. The particle size of the polishing wheel is very fine, and the wear of the teeth is negligible.
If there is discomfort after teeth cleaning, it is usually because the masked oral problem is exposed.
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Dr. Lilac Health Encyclopedia Medical Team
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Ying Han is the deputy chief physician of the Department of Oral Mucosa
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