Does scaling procedure involved polishing? Is it automatically included? Recently I went for scaling and I told the dentist of certain tooth with discolouration she proceeded with scaling and paid special attention to continuously scrub the stain away with prophy paste. After that the surface of that tooth appears sandy, if I uses fingernail to lightly scratch over other teeth it is smooth but the tooth that was scrubbed I can feel the smooth part now only exist at the sides where as the part that has been scrubbed has lost this layer and appears porous and rough. Has this enamel been damaged? I somewhat wonder if I should not have done the polishing but then again I wasn't even informed about what entails polishing (until I researched) and she didn't even said this was part of her scaling procedure.