Sustainable oral healthcare and the environment: challenges
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چکیده
Oral healthcare has an environmental impact that is specific to the profession and currently unsustainable. This results in unwanted difficult-to-manage waste, carbon emissions other impacts contribute climate change. Contributions this pollution come from supply chain provides required materials sundries, patient staff commuting/travelling, direct care, use end-of-life management of restorative single-use plastics (SUPs) such as personal protective equipment (PPE). article explores these various contributors arising oral healthcare. CPD/Clinical Relevance: The provision requires consideration action order become sustainable.
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Dental update
سال: 2021
ISSN: ['0305-5000', '2515-589X']
DOI: https://doi.org/10.12968/denu.2021.48.6.493