As concerned dental professionals and responsible people, we have been aware for some time of a conflict of interests.

Ultimately our goal is good oral health for all our patients and one of the things we advocate to help you achieve this is brushing your teeth, twice a day with a recommended tooth brush, preferably an electric tooth brush.

But here’s the thing, we also recommend replacing your tooth brush every 3 months and starting to brush your teeth as soon as they erupt.

It’s not rocket science to work out how many tooth brushes or electric tooth brush heads we are going to throw away in our lifetime!

Unfortunately nearly every single piece of plastic we have used in our life still exists somewhere on the planet, including our toothbrushes.

But now we are really excited to see new innovation tackling this issue and we are getting behind two really important initiatives that will benefit our environment and still maintain your oral health effectively.

Firstly, there is the environmental tooth brush and several companies have made great progress finding alternative materials to plastic to manufacture tooth brushes, such as bamboo. We particularly like TePe’s GOOD tooth brush, made from 96% bio-based plastics.

This is what they have to say –

“GOOD for you. GOOD for the environment.
Thanks to the use of the renewable raw materials, sugar cane and castor oil, we now manage to recirculate up to 95% of the carbon dioxide emissions during its life cycle”.

https://www.tepe.com/uk/about-tepe/sustainability/good/

Secondly, while momentum gathers in the population to address plastic waste and purchase a more sustainable solution like the GOOD tooth brush, we are joining the ‘Colgate Oral Care Recycling Programme’ in collaboration with Terracycle, an innovative recycling company that has become a global leader in recycling typically hard-to-recycle waste.

https://www.terracycle.com/en-GB/brigades/colgate

What this means is that St Paul’s Dental Practice is now a public collection point for all oral care products and packaging.

See the poster below for what we can accept.

Please help us in being more responsible and reducing or recycling plastic waste. Look for the alternatives when buying your tooth brushes and support us in recycling your dental care products and packaging.

For more information, contact us 01626 365896 or  info@stpaulsdentalpractice.co.uk