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Prevention: The Sustainable Practice Initiative

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Sustainable Dentistry

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Abstract

This chapter explores the role of prevention in the sustainable dental practice and beyond. Preventing oral diseases such as caries, periodontal disease, tooth surface loss, and oral cancers is not only the right thing ethically as a dental health professional but is also the right thing environmentally. Preventing the environmental burden associated with courses of treatment and complex oral procedures is the rationale that underpins the importance of this chapter.

Existing evidence-based preventative regimes, programmes, and interventions are included, weighing up the preventative benefit with the anticipated environmental impact. Where quantifiable environmental data exists, this is presented and compared between similar preventative options.

The aim of this chapter is to bring together the balance between evidence-based preventative interventions and environmental impact data, in order to help the sustainable dental practice design how prevention is delivered in primary care at a patient and population level.

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Lyne, A., Duane, B., Crotty, J., Wilmott, S., Tarnowski, A., Ashley, P. (2022). Prevention: The Sustainable Practice Initiative. In: Duane, B. (eds) Sustainable Dentistry. BDJ Clinician’s Guides. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-07999-3_5

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