Clinical Cleaning & Healthcare
Clinical Cleaning for Dental Practices, Implant & Oral Surgery Clinics
For dental practices across Kent and London
In a busy dental practice, cleaning needs to work around patient flow, treatment schedules, equipment and clearly defined responsibilities. When implant procedures or oral surgery are involved, confidence in the environmental hygiene system becomes even more important.
Could this be happening in your practice?
Why dental cleaning responsibilities blur
Your surgeries turn around in minutes. Dental nurses reset the chair, delivery unit and work surfaces between patients, while an external cleaner covers floors, washrooms and waiting areas at the end of the day. Aerosol and splatter from drills and scalers can travel several metres before settling, so the surfaces that matter are not only the ones next to the chair. When nobody has written down who owns what, gaps appear quietly.
Ask yourself:
- Who owns each cleaning responsibility between appointments and at the end of the day?
- Can you demonstrate that agreed cleaning processes were completed?
- Are high-touch and easily overlooked areas clearly included in your cleaning specification?
- What happens when routine cleaning needs to be escalated?
Where responsibility falls between teams
Your cleaning team may not be the problem
The system around them may need strengthening. In dental practices, the gaps usually sit in the same places:
- Surfaces beyond the immediate treatment zone: cabinetry, light switches, door handles, monitors and walls within the surgery
- The boundary between the surgery and the decontamination room, where clinical and cleaning duties meet
- Implant and oral surgery sessions, which need a higher standard of preparation and turnaround
- Reception, waiting areas and toilets, which patients judge first
- End-of-day and weekly tasks that slip when the diary is full
You gain a written specification stating who cleans what between patients, at the end of each session and at the end of the day.
A clear boundary around clinical decontamination
What stays with your team, and what you can hand over
Your clinical team already manages instrument reprocessing and dental unit waterlines under your HTM 01-05 procedures, and those stay with them. What you can hand over is everything around them: surgeries beyond the treatment zone, circulation areas, reception, waiting rooms and washrooms, cleaned to a specification that sits alongside your own procedures. You know exactly where your team’s responsibility ends, so nothing is duplicated and nothing is missed.
When the risk justifies more, such as after a contamination event, you have an agreed and documented enhanced step available. One option is automated dry fogging with hypochlorous acid (HOCl), a biocide used for environmental disinfection. It supports physical cleaning and disinfection rather than replacing them, and suitability, room downtime and compatibility with your equipment are agreed with you in advance.
The Aridom approach
Clean → Disinfect → Enhance where required → Verify → Document
Every surgery and shared area is assessed before a specification is written, because a hygienist room, an implant suite and a waiting room do not need the same response.
- Clean. Physical removal of soil and organic matter from every agreed surface, using the right method and colour-coded equipment for each area.
- Disinfect. An appropriate disinfectant, applied at the correct concentration and contact time for the surfaces and risk involved.
- Enhance where required. Enhanced environmental decontamination for defined situations, agreed with you in advance rather than applied by default.
- Verify. Each visit is checked against the agreed specification, using products selected with reference to recognised BS EN efficacy standards for their intended use and, where agreed, further verification suited to your setting.
- Document. A record of what was done, where, when and by whom, including any issues found and the action taken.
You gain a specification that matches each room and a clear line from risk, to action, to evidence.
Verification, documented assurance and contingency
Evidence you can produce, and a plan for when things change
You receive a clear record for every agreed visit: the areas covered, the tasks completed, who carried them out, the products used, and any issues found with the action taken. Safety data sheets and efficacy test information for those products are available on request. The record supports your own audits, CQC inspection preparation and HTM 01-05 audit; it does not replace them.
Contingency is planned before it is needed:
- Cover arrangements for absence and short-notice changes are agreed at the outset, so your sessions are not disrupted
- A defined route for requesting an enhanced response after a contamination event, with response times agreed with you
- Clear communication with your practice manager or infection control lead on what was done and when each room is ready to use again
You know what happens next, before you need it.
Common questions
Clinical cleaning for dental practices
Do you replace our dental nurses’ between-patient cleaning?
No. Between-patient cleaning of the chair and immediate treatment zone usually stays with your clinical team. You get a clear line showing where their tasks end, and the rest of your practice is covered to a written specification.
Do you reprocess instruments or manage waterlines?
No. Both stay with your clinical team under your HTM 01-05 procedures, so your existing decontamination arrangements are unaffected.
Can you clean outside surgery hours?
Visits are agreed around your sessions and opening hours before work starts, including early morning, evening or weekend visits, so your diary is not disrupted.
Does fogging replace manual cleaning?
No. Physical cleaning and disinfection remain the foundation; enhanced decontamination is an additional step for defined situations.
Which areas do you cover?
Dental practices across Kent, including Maidstone, Tunbridge Wells, Tonbridge, Medway, Sevenoaks, Canterbury, Ashford and Dartford, and across London, including Bromley and central and south-east London.
Request a Clinical Cleaning Review
Tell us about your practice and we will arrange a review of your current cleaning arrangements: the surgeries, responsibilities, products and records in place today. You receive a clear summary of any gaps and practical options for closing them, with no commitment to proceed.
Maidstone Innovation Centre, Gidds Pond Way, Kent Medical Campus, Maidstone, Kent ME14 5FY