Main description:

This book provides the why, what and how on delivering a sustainable dental practice. Dentists have a professional duty to support optimal oral health. They also have a moral duty to do so in a way that leaves the smallest footprint on this planet and takes their impacts on the environment and society into account. This book helps the reader to develop a sustainable practice, driven by prevention and delivering the right care at the right time and at the right place, within systems of universal, needs-based access to care.

Readers learn how to opt for a practice that is supplied with sustainable energy and encourages biodiversity while building models of care that maximize remote patient engagement and avoid travel. Clear guidance is given on responsible decontamination, waste management and environmentally sensitive ways of managing people with anxiety or behavioural difficulties within the dental setting. The future of dentistry products and innovations to reduce environmental impacts in the dental practice are discussed. This book is a must-have for dentists, dental students and all members of the dental team.

Contents:

Sustainable Dentistry - An Urgent Need for Change.- Building a sustainable dental practice (considering the need to rebuild, material, location).- Habitat level considerations for build options.- Reducing the energy needs of your dental practice.- Prevention; The sustainable practice initiative.- A guide to how to reduce the impact of PPE in your dental practice 200.- Responsible decontamination.- Supporting people and their behaviour in the dental setting as sustainably as reasonably achievable.- Buying sustainably and ethically for the dental practice.- Responsible waste management; using resources efficiently/responsibly.- The Future of dentistry products; How can we redesign the products we create.- Sustainability: The need to transform oral health systems.- Conclusion.