If you haven't had your teeth cleaned in a long time or have had a lot of problems with your teeth, you may have to get a procedure called scaling and root planing, which involves cleaning the root surfaces of your teeth, which is more expensive than a routine visit.
The key background to this question is the nature of sound waves and light waves. Youâre right in that sound waves are a vibration traveling through an object, including condensed things like solids and liquids. In solids, those waves can consist of either alternating compressed and stretched regions, or regions wiggling sideways, compared to the direction the wave is traveling.
An electromagnetic (EM) wave is not a sound wave. A sound wave is mechanical energy, and an electromagnetic wave is electromagnetic energy. The EM wave could be a radio or light wave, but in any case, it is composed of moving electric and magnetic fields. This electromagnetic wave can move through air or the vacuum of space, but sound (or any mechanical wave) must have a medium to travel through.