Peter Suresh, John Crotty, Sonja Tesanovic, Othman Alaweed, Sadhbh Doyle, Mikra Kiandee, Emily Hayes, Vanessa Umeh, Bita Khalilinejad, Brett Duane
Background Health care is a significant contributor to climate change. Global pressure for a change towards a more sustainable way of providing dental health care has resulted in the creation of the Green Impact Toolkit, which is comprised of a list of suggested changes that dental practices can make to become more sustainable in a number of categories, such as procurement, waste and water.Aims To compare the effectiveness of changes suggested by the Green Impact Toolkit.Materials and methods A comparative life cycle assessment (LCA) was conducted using the Ecoinvent database v3...
April 2024: British Dental Journal