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Dental Office Cleaning in NYC
Dental cleaning divides cleanly into two zones. Your clinical team handles instrument reprocessing, operatory barrier changes and anything touching patient care. Your janitorial vendor handles floors, non-clinical surfaces, restrooms, waiting areas, sterilisation-room floors and the disinfection of general high-touch points — at full label contact time, with colour-separated equipment.
The failure mode in dental cleaning is a vendor who does not know where the line is, and either touches something clinical or leaves an obvious gap because they were afraid to.
The Zone Map
We map your practice into three zones before the first visit. Green is full scope — reception, waiting area, corridors, staff room, restrooms, administrative offices. Yellow is restricted scope — operatories and the sterilisation room, where we clean floors, non-clinical surfaces and waste receptacles but never touch instruments, trays, barriers, ultrasonic baths or autoclaves. Red is no entry — anywhere your practice designates.
Waiting Rooms Carry the Infection Load
Not the operatory. The operatory is being disinfected between every patient by trained clinical staff. The waiting room chair arms, door handles, reception counter, pens, tablet check-in devices and restroom fixtures are touched by every patient and disinfected far less often. That is where an elevated high-touch frequency actually changes outcomes, particularly October through March.
Amalgam, X-Ray and the Separator
Practices with amalgam separators and imaging equipment have waste streams and equipment that janitorial staff must not disturb. Separators are serviced by your dental equipment vendor. We clean around them and around imaging equipment, never on them.
Our Protocol for This Environment
- Three-zone map agreed in writing before the first visit: green, yellow and red
- Operatory floors and non-clinical surfaces only — no instruments, trays or barriers
- Sterilisation room floors and general surfaces; autoclaves and ultrasonic baths untouched
- Waiting-room high-touch disinfection at elevated frequency: chair arms, counters, door hardware, check-in devices
- EPA-registered disinfectant held at full labelled contact time on every disinfected surface
- Colour-coded microfibre separating clinical-adjacent, restroom and administrative areas
- Amalgam separators, imaging equipment and suction lines never disturbed
- Red bags and sharps containers never handled — RMW is your licensed vendor's stream
- Staff trained under an OSHA Bloodborne Pathogens exposure control plan
Get a Scope Built for Your Space
We will walk the space, ask the questions specific to your environment, and send back a written scope, a fixed price and the exclusions.
Get a Scope for This Space
Written scope, fixed price and exclusions, usually within two business days.
We reply to every request. If your building needs a Certificate of Insurance or vendor registration, we handle that paperwork before the first night.
Frequently Asked Questions
Will your staff go into the operatories?
Only for floors, non-clinical surfaces and general waste, and only where your practice agrees in the zone map. Instruments, trays, barriers and any equipment in the reprocessing chain are outside our scope by policy, not by negotiation.
Can you clean between patients?
No — between-patient operatory turnover is a clinical procedure performed by your trained staff under your infection control protocol. What we can do is provide a day porter for restrooms, waiting area and corridors through the day so your clinical team is not doing housekeeping.
What disinfectant do you use?
An EPA-registered product appropriate to the surface, applied at its labelled contact time. We will give you the product name, the EPA registration number and the Safety Data Sheet before we start, so your infection control coordinator can review it.
Ready for a Cleaning Contract You Can Actually Read?
Send us your square footage and how many nights you need. You get a written scope, a fixed monthly price, and the SLA in the same document — usually within two business days.