Prof Nicolas Martin
Title: Environmental Sustainability in Prosthodontic Care
Aims: To increase awareness of the environmental impact arising from the provision of prosthodontic care and how this can be mitigated
Leaning objectives:
Through this presentation, participants will gain a greater understanding of the following learning outcomes:
- Prosthodontic treatment has an environmental impact, the nature of this impact and how it can be mitigated.
- The drivers for environmental sustainability in oral healthcare.
- Identify and review key pinch points in the provision of prosthodontic care.
- Review the concept of a linear and circular economy and the relevance to prosthodontic care.
- Identify the importance of the provision of good oral healthcare with prevention as the most important route to environmental sustainability.
- Understand the need to establish behaviour change.
- Identify practical steps for environmentally sustainable prosthodontic care.
Biography:
Nicolas Martin is a Clinical Professor in Restorative Dentistry at the University of Sheffield. He has a strong research profile as principal investigator in collaborative multi-disciplinary projects, with a focus on sustainability, pedagogy and the clinical performance of restorative systems. He has published extensively in all these fields.
Nicolas leads on several major funded projects in environmental sustainability in primary research, clinical care and pedagogy. He is passionate about increasing awareness and sharing this knowledge with the profession and the public at large. Nicolas chairs the World Dental Federation (FDI) Task Team for Sustainable Dentistry (https://www.fdiworlddental.org/sustainability-dentistry).
He led the recently ratified ‘FDI Consensus Statement on Environmentally Sustainable Oral Healthcare’. This Statement is a non-competitive and non-partisan collaboration of partners across all sectors of the profession to agree and commit to an action plan. Nicolas is keen to engage with colleagues to promote these activities.