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This Eco Focus Issue features articles on attitudes towards sustainable dentistry, planetary health effects of COVID-19, and the environmental impact of community caries prevention schemes
Cover image: Inspired by art in the service of science and advertising of the 1940s. This graphite powder drawing shows the morphological intricacies of molar teeth reported to be more susceptible to caries. The possibility that fluoride held structural strengthening and protective benefits, but that fluoride was not the panacea.