Maintaining a clean Dental clinic is critical for patient safety, infection control and health and safety compliance. But how often should dental clinic cleaning be done?
We’ve put together a guide: 

Daily cleaning:

Due to the nature of a dental office, it’s very important that daily cleaning is completed. To ensure CQC compliance, it’s recommended to hire a dental office cleaning company so that you can ensure that your dental clinic cleaning is up to industry standards.

After each client:

• Disinfect all surfaces such as dental chair, glasses, sink basin, dental light, countertops and any surfaces that were touched.
• Ensure any debris on the floor is removed.
• Make sure all dental instruments are disinfected and replaced with cleaned instruments.
• Regularly change clinical waste bins.

Reception areas:

• Disinfect high touch areas throughout the day like door handles, reception desk, card machines.
• Empty bins.
• Tidy magazines.
• Ensure floors are kept clean.
• Ensure hand sanitizer is kept filled up and encourage customers to use accordingly.

Toilets:

• Thoroughly clean and disinfect all sink basins, bathroom counter tops, taps, toilets, and toilet door handles.
• Ensure floors are clean and bins emptied regularly.
• Ensure that all soap dispensers are filled, hand dryers are in working order and paper towels are topped up.

Staff communal areas:

• Sanitise kitchen counter tops.
• ensure all communal crockery is clean.
• Clean staff tables.
• Ensure washing up liquid and other cleaning products are topped up.

At Total clean, we are highly experienced in medical cleaning services and understand the regulatory demands dental clinics must meet. Whether you’re a private or NHS dental practice, our dental clinic cleaning helps reduce infection risk, ensures a professional space for both staff and clients and maintains CQC compliance.

Weekly Cleaning:

Along with daily cleaning, there are some importantly weekly cleaning tasks to consider:

• Disinfect all bins.
• Clear cobwebs and dust from skirting boards.
• Deep clean waiting room floors.
• Dust and clean any air vents.
• Clean window sills.
• Dust light fixtures.
• Clean windows.
• Clean behind appliances.

You can ask your dental office cleaning company to complete these tasks weekly along with other daily cleaning tasks.

At Total clean, we offer a fully bespoke service to suit your dental practice.

Monthly cleaning:

Daily dental clinic cleaning is essential for your dental practice, but there are some monthly cleaning tasks that you may want to consider to ensure the longevity of your equipment and fixtures.

• Ensure the working order of air filtration systems and clean filters if needed.
• Review medical equipment inventory and ensure that there is ample supply of sterilization products and PPE.
• Clean out cabinets and drawers.
• Deep clean X-ray units as recommended by the manufacturer.
• Polish hard floors and deep clean any carpets.

Ensuring thorough dental clinic cleaning is part of your patient care and should be done daily. To ensure high standards and professionalism, it is best to invest in dental office cleaning services.

At Total clean we offer a range of medical cleaning services such as:

• GP surgery cleaning 
• Hospital cleaning 
• Dental surgery cleaning
• CQC cleaning
• Healthcare cleaning

Our medical cleaning services provide a safe and compliant environment for both staff and patients.

Contact one of our team for a dental office cleaning services quote today.