Summary
A clean dental office protects patients, supports staff well-being, and builds trust in your practice at every visit. Each area, from reception to restrooms, plays an important role in maintaining a safe, sanitary environment for everyone who enters your practice. Consistent daily cleaning, paired with a deeper cleaning routine, is essential in your dental practice, especially for high-traffic clinical areas where precision and safety matter the most.
Keeping Your Dental Office Clean & Safe
Patients trust you to provide a safe space for them to have their dental work. Clean reception areas, spotless bathrooms, tidy offices, and sanitized treatment areas are all must-haves to keep your patients and staff healthy and comfortable.
In this article, we’ll explain the importance of each area and how to keep it clean and sanitary, and how hiring Picture Perfect Cleaning is not just good business, it’s good for your business.
Maintain A Beautiful Entrance & Reception Area
The entranceways and reception areas are where your patients get their first impressions about your practice. They spend a lot of undistracted time here, giving them plenty of opportunities to scrutinize the cleanliness of these areas.
A clean waiting area conveys to your customers that you care about providing a hygienic and safe atmosphere.
These areas can be a breeding ground for germs, bacteria, and viruses, and require regular cleaning and maintenance:
- Clean windows, blinds, picture frames, shelves, and all exposed surfaces
- Wipe down and sanitize furniture and upholstery
- Shake out or replace exterior mats and clean door frames
- Remove clutter and eliminate any obstacles or tripping hazards
Ensure A Clean & Disinfected Patient Treatment Area
Your staff should focus on treating their patients, not on spending hours cleaning their treatment areas. Hiring Picture Perfect Cleaning saves you time and money so that you can do exactly that.
With patients opening their mouths and exposing wounds for extended periods, treatment areas need to achieve the highest level of disinfection and sanitization possible to ensure patient safety.
- Sanitize all dental equipment and tools
- Disinfect dentist chairs, armrests, and all surrounding touchpoints
- Clean and sanitize floors, cabinets, and countertops
- Wipe down windows, ledges, and other high-contact surfaces
- Ensure every element in the treatment room is thoroughly disinfected
The treatment room is where your patients spend most of their time. Ensure they feel comfortable and relaxed in a clean, hygienic environment.
Dust & Declutter Offices & Breakrooms
Your patients may not see your offices and breakrooms as often as other areas, but keeping these areas clean and tidy is also important.
Clean staff environments reduce the number of staff sick days and improve workplace morale and work ethic. A dust-free, sanitary office and breakroom also reduces the risk that a staff member will transfer bacteria and viruses from these areas to your patients.
Try to keep your desk de-cluttered and employ a team of professionals at PPC to regularly clean and dust windows, desks, counters, tables, chairs, sinks, and cabinets.
Get Sparkling Clean Restrooms
The restroom, by nature, is an unsanitary place. It’s also a place that gets noticed when it’s dirty.
To help prioritize your cleaning routine, here’s where restroom germs tend to accumulate the most. Ranked from dirtiest to least dirty:
- Toilet: Highest exposure to bodily waste, aerosolization, and direct contamination.
- Floor: Collects everything: splashes, drips, shoe bacteria, and general restroom debris.
- Sink: Often covered in soap scum, moisture, and contamination from people washing dirty hands.
- Sink taps: Frequently touched before hands are clean, making them a hotspot for bacteria.
- Door knob: High-touch area, but usually after hands have been washed (though not always!)
- Light switch: Still touched often, but generally the least contaminated of all restroom surfaces.
Picture Perfect Cleaning not only cleans these areas but also understands how to keep them in compliance with Canada Health sanitation guidelines and standards.
Tips For General Maintenance
Whether you do it yourself or hire a professional janitorial service, keeping your dental practice clean is important for you, your staff, and your patients.
With office cleaning or any other commercial cleaning environment, the size of your space matters. Cleaning schedules need to account for the size, layout, and working hours of your practice.
In an environment such as yours, regular and consistent cleaning needs to occur throughout the day, along with daily deep cleanings.
Leave Dental Office Cleaning To The Professionals
Are you in need of a reputable and reliable cleaning service for your dental practice? Are you unhappy with the job your current cleaning professionals are doing?Picture Perfect Cleaning has the experience and industry knowledge to tailor cleaning routines and schedules around the needs of each client. With over 10 years of professional cleaning experience under our belt, you can trust us to provide quality cleaning services for your dental office every time.
