Can teeth cleaning remove all the stains.

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No! To understand this we need to know about intrinsic and extrinsic stain.
Intrinsic satin are present inside your toorh . Eg. fluorosis, traumatised tooth. These stains cant be removed by cleaning.
Extrinsic stains are present on the surface of the tooth. Eg. Food stain, tobacco stains. They can be removed by cleaning.

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True. extrinsic stains can be removed by scaling while intrinsic staining needs an elaborate approach which will address the cause of the staining.

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Chronic pan/ tobacco chewing leads to intrinsic stains.

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That’s true

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Yeah, we need to educate the patient about what to expect after scaling in such cases

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Clarifying!

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Sometimes, the patients think that cleaning will make their teeth pearly white.

As dentists, we need to clarify that cleaning can only remove extrinsic stains; not intrinsic stains.

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Informative

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This is a common misconception. There are some stains because of enamel or dentine defect , fluorosis, certain antibiotics and taruma . These does not go away with cleaning. Scaling is basically for removal of plaque and calculus and better gums . Extrinsic stains can be removed by scaling. Before oral prophylaxis these must be well informed by performing dentist to the patient