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[PATIENT 1]
I brush twice a day and I floss.
Why am I paying for a cleaning?
[DR HAJEE 1]
Because brushing cannot remove what has already hardened, and it cannot get
below your gums.
[PATIENT 2]
Hardened?
[DR HAJEE 2]
Plaque turns into tartar in about forty-eight hours.
Once it is hard, a toothbrush does nothing to it.
It needs an instrument.
[PATIENT 3]
So the brushing is pointless.
[DR HAJEE 3]
The opposite.
Brushing is what stops most of it forming in the first place.
The cleaning handles the bit that got past you.
[PATIENT 4]
Nobody has ever explained it that way.
[DR HAJEE 4]
I know.
That is genuinely the problem.