This document is divided into sections, which enables the reader to readily access areas of interest.

Contributors to the Stakeholder Statement are acknowledged at the outset together with a glossary of the terms and definitions used throughout.

A Joint Stakeholder Statement for Environmentally Sustainable Oral Healthcare is established. This sets the tone and construct for a detailed and comprehensive operational Strategic Action Framework (Section V) for all stakeholders in the supply chain.

The Strategic Action Framework is an operational framework that provides a series of principles and action points that have been reached through consensual agreement. This forms the basis for proactive engagement in worldwide environmentally sustainable oral healthcare. A synopsis concludes this section.

The Strategic Action Framework is founded on a comprehensively developed Frame of Reference (Section IV) for the concept of sustainability in oral healthcare. In doing so, it highlights the levels of awareness, the challenges, the drivers and the opportunities involved in achieving this goal. It also identifies and considers the various routes to sustainability identified in the literature.

The whole process has been developed through a robust and detailed Research Framework (Section III) that identifies the background to the study, the main aim and objectives and the actual methodology that has been used to reach the Strategic Action Framework.

The document concludes with the relevant Bibliography and the Appendix for the mapping exercise that matches the United Nations’ Sustainability Development Goals to those reached in this oral healthcare sustainability statement.

This stakeholder statement was ratified in March 2022 by the contributors as identified.