Saturday, August 29, 2009

Recycling In the Dental Environment

What has happened to the awareness of ecology in the dental setting?
Obsessed w/ time restraints and paranoia of disease transmission have we done away with the idea of reusable, rebuildable sustainable products in our dental treatment rooms?
We have progressed to paperless offices via computer software. We now have in approximately 60% of the dental offices digital imaging w/ our radiology.
How about going back to the future? What truly has to be disposable?
If we can sterilize cloth, instruments, rubber, silicone etc. why are we so wasteful with disposables.