Dental Office Floor Cleaning: 8 Cleaning Tips

As an organization that has built our business on cleanliness, Night Owl Floor Services knows clean. Dental offices and other medical facilities rely on us to help them keep their practice’s floors clean for aesthetics and their patient’s health and safety.

A clean practice helps you to make a great first impression and ensures the safety and health of your staff and patients. In your highly competitive market, the cleanliness of your practice will make the difference between you and your competitors. And if your hard floors don’t sparkle, you can’t impress.

Obviously, you try to keep your dental practice very clean, but have you ever considered what you may be missing? Maybe your cleaning regimen could be improved? Surely it can’t hurt to double check this list!

Dental Office Cleaning Checklist

Use this list to see how you could improve the cleanliness of your dental practice. Remember, we offer monthly and yearly hard floor cleaning contracts to help keep the biggest surface in your practice beautifully clean!

1. Disinfect High-Touch Areas

Disinfecting high-touch and high-traffic areas is the low-hanging fruit of the checklist. Make sure to remove visible debris and trash and follow it up with a wipe down of the patient treatment areas in the office. Always use effective disinfecting cleaners.

Make sure you hit all of the most highly-trafficked areas of your practice:

2. Bathroom Cleanliness is Key

The cleanliness of your bathroom is the biggest indicator of your practice’s overall cleanliness. Keeping restrooms looking great and smudge-free is crucial to the way your patients see your practice. If something is broken, fix it as quickly as possible and always keep it visibly well-stocked.

There should always be toilet paper, paper towels, and soap but the inclusion of additional amenities and luxury items go a long way. Consider complimentary disposable floss or toothpicks, along with single-serving mouthwash packets.

Restroom checks should be part of the daily routine and done frequently throughout the day by staff.

3. Reception Should be Clean and Organized

A well-organized and clean reception area is something we all expect but is surprisingly rare in the dental industry. Keeping clutter and knick-knacks to a minimum presents a clean-looking atmosphere that your patients spend a decent amount of time in. This is the first impression that your patients get of your practice, so it’s very important to keep it fresh smelling, and clean.

Don’t go overboard with scents, but make sure the atmosphere is pleasant.

Keeping reception clean can be a challenge, especially for pediatric practices, but it makes a huge difference in patient perception of your practice.

Keeping furniture clean and in good working order is not to be overlooked in the reception area. If something breaks or appears damaged, consider fixing it same-day.

4. Dust Every Day

Dust is tricky because it’s not immediately noticeable to those who share the space every day. You and your staff don’t always see the dust that’s right in front of you, which is why it’s so important to have a daily dusting regimen. If all surfaces are dusted every day, nothing can be missed for too long.

Dusting can make a big difference in keeping respiratory issues from flaring up in your staff and patients. It can also reduce the load on your air filtration equipment.

5. Remove Visible Smudges

Lots of surfaces in dental practices hold a smudge well, which is not great. From windows to stainless steel surfaces and examination lights, your patients notice smudges.

At the start or end of each day, have someone do a smudge check immediately following the dusting of the office. This was any dust that was kicked up from the dusting is removed, and smudges are squashed.

Don’t forget to clean the sunglasses that you provide your patients to protect their eyes from the examination lights!

6. Follow Industry Standard Disinfection Procedures

The CDC and OSHA have set clear standards for all dental facilities, and they have even outlines maintenance procedures. These are research-based suggestions that can help to keep your staff and patients safe by reducing health-associated risks of contamination and infection.

7. Properly Store and Dispose of Garbage and Hazardous Waste

This may seem like a no-brainer, but there are a few tips to this point that might allude your dental practice! You understand that overflowing trash cans and hazardous waste units are not only unsightly, but a breeding ground for bacteria.

What you may not realize is that if you empty your trash and hazardous waste bins two times a day, your patients will think more highly of your practice’s cleanliness. When a patient sees a disposal bin that is empty or near empty, it impresses them.

By emptying these bins at the start of the day and at midday, even the patients that show up late in the day are greeted by half the amount of garbage in your bins as they would be if they were emptied once a day.

8. Hire Night Owl Floor Services

At Night Owl Floor Services our business is keeping the floor of your practice impeccably clean. Our top goal is to build long-lasting relationships with our clients and to help them grow their practice. No one understands how hard it has been over the course of the shutdowns as us, but if we can help you to get your practice back on-track, we count that as a win.

We offer both annual and monthly contracts to help meet our client’s needs.

First, we do a deep clean and seal of your hard floors; this gives us a clean slate to work with. Following the deep clean, we will return on a weekly or bi-weekly basis to ensure the continued upkeep of your hard floors.

We specialize in unique floorplans and small to medium-sized practices. We take special care to work out a customized cleaning plan for your practice, which allows us to be extra careful around your expensive and large dental equipment.

When you hire Night Owl, you hire the best. You can trust us to keep your floors picture-perfect!