If you can’t clean the calculus by yourself at home, you need to go to the hospital for manual scaling or ultrasonic scaling.
1. Manual scaling: It is mainly for the practitioner to carry out manual scaling with hand instruments, which is time-consuming and labor-intensive and not much used at present, and is mainly used for some local treatments where ultrasonic equipments do not clean up thoroughly.
2. Ultrasonic cleaning: mainly using ultrasonic oscillation, cavitation and rinsing effect of dental calculus shock down, is currently the most commonly used clinical methods, high efficiency and clean.
Dental calculus can not be cleaned up by themselves, it is recommended to go to the regular hospital stomatology clinic every 6 to 12 months for examination and scaling to prevent the occurrence of gingivitis and periodontitis.