All in all, an average of 20 grams of plastic is used per patient. And what happens to this material in most cases? It ends its useful life in a waste bin with the rest of the rubbish and without being properly separated for recycling.
This does not end here: this same process is carried out with more than 10 patients a day in the dental clinic every day of the week... Imagine this amount of plastic used daily in all the dental clinics around the world. That's tons of plastic a year!