Environmentally sustainable dentistry: a brief introduction to sustainable concepts within the dental practice

Duane, Brett; Harford, Sara; Ramasubbu, Darshini; Stancliffe, Rachel; Pasdeki-Clewer, Eleni; Lomax, Richard; Steinbach, Inge

doi:10.1038/s41415-019-0010-7

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“…The major challenges for the implementation of the SDGs through professional development sector are that the professional development itself does not have a clear framework on how each Goal, Target, and Indicator should be achieved by 2030 and beyond. Moreover, there is a lack of knowledge on the linkages between professional development and SDGs (Anåker et al 2015;Duane et al 2019).…”

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Professional Development and Sustainable Development Goals

Havea

Mohanty

2019

Encyclopedia of the UN Sustainable Development Goals

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Professional Development and Sustainable Development Goals

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2019

Encyclopedia of the UN Sustainable Development Goals

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“…Thus, dentistry provides a lot of methods for protecting teeth. [11][12][13][14] These efforts suffer from key disadvantages, which require more efficient strategies and novel technologies in contemporary dentistry. [15][16][17][18] Nanoparticles, unlike other biomaterials, present distinct biological properties and can be used in novel applications in restorative dentistry, prosthetic dentistry, endodontics, implantology, oral cancers, and periodontology.…”

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Applications of nano-materials in diverse dentistry regimes

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“…Eco-design considers both environmental and economic aspects associated with the life cycle of products and processes without compromising performance, functionality, and quality [9,10]. Various relevant literature and practical implementations have followed the guideline of eco-design [9] in the development of green healthcare buildings and facilities, low-energy equipment, medical equipment and material recycling, low environmental hazard drugs, low emission of greenhouse gases, efficient healthcare logistics, and so on [6,7,8,11,12,13,14,15,16]. However, these implementations were derived from the perspective of "physical goods".…”

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“…Factors inherent in the profession, such as enormous electricity demands of electronic dental equipment, voluminous water requirements, environmental effects of biomaterials (before, during, and after clinical use), the use of radiation, and the generation of hazardous waste all contribute towards this [8]. Adoption of eco-design practices [9] and environmentally friendly measures has been emphasized and studied in the literature [8,12,13]. To consolidate green dentistry supply chains, delivering the care of highest quality which meets client value should not be neglected.…”

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Facilitating Green Supply Chain in Dental Care through Kansei Healthscape of Positive Emotions

Hsu

Hsiao

2019

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Dentistry is highly energy- and resource-intensive with a significant environmental impact. To consolidate green dentistry supply chains, delivering the care of highest quality that meets client value should not be neglected. This study emphasized the importance of client-centered healthscape design for facilitating a green dentistry supply chain. A client-centered healthscape design, which promotes clients’ positive emotions and increases willingness to revisit the dentist, plays a critical role in realizing green dentistry supply chains in the long run. For this purpose, the relationship among dental healthscape design elements, client emotions, and revisit intentions was investigated using a Kansei engineering-based approach. The effects of dental healthscape elements on clients’ positive emotions and the effects of positive emotions on clients’ revisit intentions were holistically examined on the basis of the stimulus–organism–response model. Through this approach, 17 elements of design, ambience, and social interaction factors that comprise the dental healthscape and 20 Kansei words used to express clients’ positive emotions regarding dental service were identified. A questionnaire survey was used to assess Kansei and revisit intention in healthscape scenarios, composed of varied design elements. Primary data were collected from 600 individuals from 2017 to 2018 throughout Taiwan. Partial least squares was applied to holistically analyze the effects of dental healthscape elements on clients’ positive emotions and the effects of positive emotions on clients’ revisit intention to generate a Kansei model for the dental healthscape. All 20 Kansei words had significant positive effects on the dental revisit intention of clients. The five positive emotions most associated with increased revisit intention were thoughtful, hopeful, tender, comfortable, and cozy. The Kansei model of the dental healthscape provides references for healthscape design that maintains positive client emotions during the dental service and results in high revisit intention. This approach can realize an emotion-centered design for dental healthscapes that promotes preventive dental care, early treatment, and effective use of medical resources, and consequently contributes to green dentistry supply chains.

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Environmentally sustainable dentistry: a brief introduction to sustainable concepts within the dental practice

Cited by 49 publications

References 16 publications

Professional Development and Sustainable Development Goals

Professional Development and Sustainable Development Goals

Applications of nano-materials in diverse dentistry regimes

Facilitating Green Supply Chain in Dental Care through Kansei Healthscape of Positive Emotions

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