Overview:
This webinar explores sustainability in dentistry from a research and systems perspective. The session will examine practical pathways to reducing the carbon footprint of dentistry while advancing equitable oral health care through examples from dental practice in low-and-middle income countries, digital innovations, and dental materials' recycling.
Learning Objectives:
- Highlight differences in the carbon footprint of dental clinics between low-and middle income and high-income countries and why these differences matter for global oral health action.
- Identify evidence-based strategies to reduce the carbon footprint of dental care and the role of teledentistry and dental materials' recycling.
- Understand how oral health research can align with global sustainability frameworks to address environmental challenges in dentistry.
Speakers:
Guang Hong
Tohoku University Graduate School of Dentistry, Japan
Recycling and Reuse of Dental Materials
Amira H. Elwan
Department of Pediatric Dentistry and Dental Public Health, Faculty of Dentistry, Alexandria University, Alexandria, Egypt
Carbon Footprints, Equity, and Oral Health Care: Why Evidence from Low and-Middle Income Countries Matters
Nourhan M. Aly
Department of Pediatric Dentistry and Dental Public Health, Faculty of Dentistry, Alexandria University, Alexandria, Egypt
Teledentistry and Low-carbon Oral Health Care: Evidence from a Field Trial
Moderator:
Jeffery Milleman
