Dental Susnet brings together staff, patients and others from dentistry to share ideas and resources for the transformation to a truly sustainable health service. You can also follow Dental Susnet on Twitter and Facebook.

Welcome to Dental Susnet- Get Sustainable with us!!

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this is the first Sustainability network within dentistry

Applications open! Dental Public Health Fellowships in Sustainable Dentistry 2015-16

Two new part-time roles in sustainable dentistry are open to core trainees nationally. Fellows will receive educational supervision from the Centre for Sustainable Healthcare, and will undertake sustainable quality improvement projects in Kent, Surrey and Sussex. Closing date: Monday 1st June 2015

Helping people achieve a healthy diet may not only help their oral health....

Delivering better oral health suggests that for all adults and children we should "maintain good dietary practices in line with The Balance of Good Health." This is another example which demonstrates that by practicing evidence based dentistry we may also be able to contribute to global sustainability.A new paper by Joseph Milner demonstrates how dietary change could significantly reduce the Greenhouse gas emissions of the average UK consumer. Joseph's paper shows if the "average UK dietary intake were optimised to comply with the WHO recommendations, he estimates an incidental reduction of 17% in GHG emissions. "

Carbon Modelling Dentistry: Workshop overview

PowerPoint presentation giving an overview of the workshop and an introduction to Sustainable Healthcare

Rachel Stancliffe

January, 2015

Carbon Modelling Dentistry: methodology

PowerPoint presentation: an Overview of carbon modelling: how to combine process-based and Input/Output approaches

Mike Berners-Lee

January, 2015

Carbon Modelling Dentistry: measuring carbon

PowerPoint presentation on Background of carbon counting (importance, current models, legislation)

Frances Mortimer

January, 2015

Carbon Modelling Dentistry: NUS

PowerPoint presentation of the Natoinal Union of Students' work with Dentistry

Kim Croasdale

January, 2015

Carbon Modelling Dentistry: GHG accounting

Powerpoint presentation by ERM of Greenhouse Gas accounting Approaches

Tom Penny

January, 2015

Carbon Modelling Dentistry: RCGP footprinter

PowerPoint of the Royal College of GPs carbon footprinter which was developed by Best Foot Forward (now Anthesis).

Craig Simmons

January, 2015

Carbon Modelling Dentistry: Dentistry in England and Scotland

Poweroint of summary of the structure of dentistry in England and Scotland

Brett Duane, Public Health England

January, 2015

Carbon Modelling Dentistry: Write-up

A summary of the presentations and discussion in the form of notes taken during the workshop.

Ingeborg Steinbach

January, 2015

SAP - sustainable action planning resources for clinical teams

SAP is a programme to support clinical teams in taking action for sustainability. Structured around two facilitated workshops, SAP helps front-line staff to learn about sustainable healthcare, focus in on their priorities and put together a green action plan. The action plan can then

Centre for Sustainable Healthcare

February, 2010

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The carbon footprint of waste streams in a UK hospital

This article by CSH's Sustainable Surgery Fellow, Chantelle Rizan, and co-authors, provides greenhouse gas emission factors for the different healthcare waste streams in the UK.

Highlights:

Journal of Cleaner Production

December, 2020

Environmental impact of PPE in the first six months of the COVID-19 pandemic

Article: Environmental impact of Personal Protective Equipment supplied to health and social care services in England in the first six months of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Chantelle Rizan, Malcolm Reed, Mahmood F Bhutta

MedRxiv preprint

December, 2020

The environmental footprint of health care: a global assessment

Background: Health-care services are necessary for sustaining and improving human wellbeing, yet they have an environmental footprint that contributes to environment-related threats to human health.

July, 2020

Nordic Know-How: Nitrous Oxide Destruction

The theme of this first report in the Nordic Know-How series is nitrous oxide destruction. Nitrous oxide substantially contributes to the climate footprint of the healthcare sector. This report provides good examples on how to reduce emissions of nitrous oxide in hospitals.

Nordic Center for Sustainable Healthcare

March, 2020

Case Study: Honeycomb Dental Clinic

Honeycomb Dental Clinic is an independent general dental practice in Winscombe, Somerset with a strong environmentally sustainable ethos. The setting is a detached house with 5 surgeries, 1 staff room, 1 decontamination room and a large office/ front-desk/ patients’ lounge area.

Centre for Sustainable Healthcare

October, 2019

BDJ Sustainable Dentistry section

This collection of papers from the British Dental Journalexplores how dentistry can be carried out more sustainably and covers topics including procurement, climate change, waste disposal, energy use and biodiversity.

British Dental Journal

May, 2019

Green Impact for Dentists

Green Impact is a sustainability accreditation scheme with an audit and awards element designed specifically for dental practices. It’s an international programme, recognised by UNESCO as a global laureate for education for sustainable development.

March, 2019

Webinar recording: Sustainable Dentistry Guide - Energy, biodiversity and green space

The Centre for Sustainable Healthcare in partnership with Health Education England is hosting a webinar series to launch our how-to guide for sustainable dentistry.

Centre for Sustainable Healthcare, Health Education England

March, 2019

Sustainable Dentistry: How-to Guide for Dental Practices

The Centre for Sustainable Healthcare, with funding from Health Education England, has developed a free-to-access Guide for improving the sustainability of a dental practice.

Centre for Sustainable Healthcare

January, 2019

The environmental impact of dental amalgam and resin-based composite materials

Abstract: Direct-placement dental restorative materials include dental amalgam, glass ionomer, resin-modified glass ionomer, compomer and resin-based composite (RBC).

Mulligan et al., British Dental Journal

April, 2018

Nitrous Oxide and Entonox Manifold Waste Reduction: Free Lunch and Learn online seminar

Do you prescribe nitrous oxide? It's a vital medicine for many specialties within health care.

SHARE conference - 7 May 2021 online

Sustainable Healthcare Academic Research and Enterprise

Upcoming free event - Remote Consultations: What’s their role in Sustainable Healthcare?

Join us & our inspiring speakers to consider the role of remote consultations and care as part of a sustainable healthcare service and whether

Last days to sign up to our Carbon Footprinting for Healthcare Course

This training course will help health professionals, quality improvement leads and medical students to become carbon literate.

Introduction to Sustainable Healthcare goes international!

Our first Introduction course was by attended remotely by health professionals from across the UK, Australia and Canada.

AHP Sustainability Survey: Deadline Extended Until 31st July

NHS Improvement's AHP Sustainability Survey has 11 questions and should take about 5-15 minutes to complete:

impact of dental materials

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The LDC supporting sustainable dentistry!

If you are a dentist in the London area you may have noticed a recent focus on Dental Sustainability in our recent news letters from the LDC Confed

“Researchers call for thoughtful waste management in dentistry”

An interesting article from Harvard school of Dental Medicine looking at the correlation between environmental and oral health:

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SHARE conference - 7 May 2021 online

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Frances Mortimer created The carbon footprint of waste streams in a UK hospital in the Sustainable Healthcare, Commissioning Sustainable Healthcare, Sustainable Operating Theatres, Green Nephrology, Sustainable Primary Care, Sustainable Respiratory Care, Psych Susnet, Occupational Therapy Susnet, Dental Susnet, EyeHealth Susnet, Green Nurse Network, Critical Care Susnet, Green Endoscopy, and AHP Susnet groups.

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Frances Mortimer created Environmental impact of PPE in the first six months of the COVID-19 pandemic in the Sustainable Healthcare, Commissioning Sustainable Healthcare, Sustainable Operating Theatres, Green Nephrology, Sustainable Primary Care, Sustainable Respiratory Care, Psych Susnet, Occupational Therapy Susnet, Dental Susnet, EyeHealth Susnet, Green Nurse Network, Critical Care Susnet, Green Endoscopy, and AHP Susnet groups.

Wed, 12/23/2020 - 5:26pm

Amarantha Fennell-Wells posted Nitrous Oxide and Entonox Manifold Waste Reduction: Free Lunch and Learn online seminar in the Dental Susnet network

Wed, 12/16/2020 - 6:47pm

Heather Baid posted SHARE conference - 7 May 2021 online in the Commissioning Sustainable Healthcare, Sustainable Operating Theatres, Green Nephrology, Education for Sustainable Healthcare , Sustainable Primary Care, Sustainable Respiratory Care, Psych Susnet, Occupational Therapy Susnet, Dental Susnet, EyeHealth Susnet, Green Nurse Network, Critical Care Susnet, Sustainable Healthcare, and AHP Susnet groups.

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BDJ Sustainable Dentistry section

British Dental Journal

May, 2019

Green Impact for Dentists

March, 2019

Sustainable Dentistry: How-to Guide for Dental Practices

The Centre for Sustainable Healthcare, with funding from Health Education England, has developed a free-to-access Guide for improving the sustainability of a dental practice.

Centre for Sustainable Healthcare

January, 2019