Partnership With FDI World Dental Federation

As environmental stewards, we are conscious of our operations’ impacts on the environment. That’s why we’re incredibly proud to play a key role as cofounder of a landmark project to improve sustainability in dentistry, launched in May 2021.

We've joined GSK Consumer Healthcare, Procter & Gamble, Colgate, and TePe as founding partners with FDI World Dental Federation (FDI) to promote sustainability in dentistry amongst practitioners, patients, and throughout the supply chain.

By uniting key peers from the wider life sciences sector, FDI, and our customers, this partnership will create a new wave of sustainable action within dentistry and set an ambitious benchmark. On a practical level, it will equip dentists and their teams with the tools and resources to improve sustainability in their dental practices while informing the public of the role they can play in ensuring a sustainable future for dentistry, both through improved oral health and by making informed decisions.

A key milestone was recently reached, as the Consensus Statement on Environmentally Sustainable Oral Healthcare was finalized! A comprehensive document that identifies current behaviors and proposes strategies aimed at reducing the environmental impact of the dental industry. The Consensus Statement is the outcome of a multi-stakeholder collaboration – above-mentioned key partners, representatives from various dental associations around the world, analyzed, completed, and documented by the dedicated Task Force of FDI World Dental Federation. And it will result in a Code of Good Practice to provide guidelines and objectives for become more sustainable in dental practices and across the entire supply chain.

The partnership’s aims are:

• To inspire and equip all stakeholders to address the issue of sustainability in oral healthcare, identify potential solutions and strategies, and build motivation and commitment to reducing environmental impact
• To engage with stakeholders from all levels of the supply chain to commit to managing plastic use in a practical and sustainable manner, and pledge to follow the FDI Sustainability Code of Practice
• To motivate and equip dentists and their teams with the ability to improve sustainability in their dental practices
• To inform patients of their personal role in contributing to sustainability through improved oral health and making sustainable choices
• To engage with governments and policy makers (via national dental associations) to deliver a model of sustainable dentistry

“I am delighted to witness FDI’s Sustainability in Dentistry project evolve into this high-caliber, multipartner initiative to achieve our sustainability goals for the dental profession. The project’s humble beginnings as a way to encourage oral health professionals and dental practices to ‘think green’ is now moving into a phase of collaboration, action, and real results.”