Dental Office Cleaning Services in Atlanta, GA

Cleaning Built Around the Operatory, Not Around a Generic Office

This page is for practice owners and office managers hiring a cleaning contractor, not for patients booking a hygiene appointment. If you run a dental office in metro Atlanta and you are tired of a crew that treats your operatories like conference rooms, this is the difference.

A dental practice is the most demanding small clinical space there is. Six hundred square feet can hold four operatories, a sterilisation corridor with genuine clean and dirty zoning, a dental lab with plaster dust, a dark room or imaging alcove, and a waiting room full of people who notice everything. We clean practices like these from our Suwanee, Sandy Springs and Decatur branches, including Johns Creek, Alpharetta, Dunwoody, Marietta and Brookhaven.

Clinical Contact Surfaces and Housekeeping Surfaces Are Not the Same Job

Dental infection control splits environmental surfaces into two kinds, and a cleaning contractor who does not know the difference will get both wrong.

Clinical contact surfaces are the ones touched during treatment: light handles and arms, chair switches and controls, delivery unit housings, air and water syringe bodies, bracket trays, radiograph heads and countertops beside the chair. During clinic hours your team protects these with barriers and changes them between patients. After hours, when the barriers come off, those surfaces are cleaned and then disinfected to the product’s label contact time.

Housekeeping surfaces are floors, walls, sinks and the rest of the practice. They carry far less risk and need detergent, water and consistency rather than a disinfectant on every pass. Treating every surface as if it were an operatory light handle wastes your money; treating the light handle as if it were a floor is the actual hazard.

Contact Time Is the Whole Ballgame

Every EPA-registered disinfectant states how long a surface must stay visibly wet to actually work, usually between one and ten minutes. A crew that sprays and immediately wipes has used an expensive cleaner, not a disinfectant. If somebody is in and out of an operatory in ninety seconds, the dwell time did not happen, whatever the invoice says. We clean first, disinfect second, and hold the label time, and we use colour-coded cloths and mop heads by room type so nothing used in a restroom ever reaches an operatory.

In Georgia, Infection Control Is a Licensing Matter

This is the part most national cleaning companies writing about dental offices never mention, because they are not writing for Georgia.

The Georgia Board of Dentistry lists failing to follow current CDC recommendations for preventing transmission of bloodborne pathogens and other communicable diseases under Rule 150-8-.01 — its chapter on unprofessional conduct. The rule states those recommendations are “considered by the Board to be minimum standards of acceptable and prevailing dental practice.” In other words, in this state infection control is not best practice you aspire to. It is the floor, and it sits in the chapter the Board uses to discipline licensees.

Environmental surfaces are one link in that chain, and after hours they are the only link still moving. That is why the crew in your operatories is trained before the first shift rather than after it. Starbiz holds IJCSA Certified Medical Cleaning Service Provider status along with Bloodborne Pathogens and Infectious Disease certification and OSHA HAZWOPER 40-hour training. CDC’s summary of infection prevention practices in dental settings defines dental health care personnel to include anyone who may be exposed to contaminated supplies, equipment or environmental surfaces, which plainly covers the person cleaning your operatories at 8pm.

Three Georgia Requirements, and Which One Is Ours

Knowing where a cleaning contractor stops matters as much as knowing what it does. Here is the honest map.

• Dental unit water quality is not ours. Rule 150-8-.05 requires nonsurgical water at 500 CFU/mL or less, quarterly line testing, immediate remedial action and a testing log kept five years. Georgia is one of very few states to regulate this directly. It belongs to your practice and your equipment protocol, and any cleaning company offering to take it on should worry you.
• Sterilization records are not ours. Rule 150-8-.01 requires them kept at least three years. We never open, load or unload a sterilizer, so we never generate those records.
• The written cleaning schedule is ours. OSHA’s Bloodborne Pathogens Standard requires a worksite kept in a clean and sanitary condition on a written schedule. Yours is written at the walkthrough, names each surface and frequency, and goes in your compliance file where an inspector can find it.

Dental Office Cleaning Across Metro Atlanta

We serve practices from Forsyth and North Gwinnett down through the Perimeter and into in-town Atlanta, including Suwanee, Duluth, Alpharetta, Sandy Springs, Dunwoody, Marietta, Decatur and Midtown. Every area we cover is listed further down this page.