Our Sustainability Commitment
Caring for our patients and our planet — quality dental care and environmental responsibility, hand in hand.
Caring for our patients and our planet
At Central Dental Group, looking after people doesn’t stop at the dental chair. Across both our Frankston and Elsternwick practices, we believe quality dental care and environmental responsibility go hand in hand. As local healthcare providers, we recognise that the choices we make today shape the wellbeing of the communities and environment we’ll continue to serve for years to come. That’s why sustainability is woven into how we run our practices, not as an afterthought, but as an ongoing commitment to doing better.
Reducing our footprint, day by day
We know that real environmental progress comes from consistent, practical action rather than one-off gestures. Across our Frankston and Elsternwick clinics, our team is focused on the changes that make the biggest difference, including:
- Moving to digital patient records to cut down on paper use and waste
- Selecting energy-efficient equipment and technology wherever possible
- Reducing single-use materials and improving how we manage clinical waste
- Choosing suppliers and products with sustainability in mind
- Encouraging simple, everyday habits among our team that support a greener workplace
These changes don’t happen overnight. We treat sustainability the same way we treat clinical excellence: as something to keep refining, practice by practice, year on year.
Proudly supporting GreenfleetA partnership that goes further
Beyond what happens inside our clinics, we partner with Greenfleet, a respected Australian non-profit dedicated to restoring native forests and tackling climate change. Since 1997, Greenfleet has planted millions of native trees across Australia and New Zealand, helping to capture carbon emissions, restore soil and water quality, and create habitat for native wildlife.
Through this partnership, Central Dental Group supports the planting of native forests to help offset emissions associated with our practices. It’s one way we can extend our impact beyond Frankston and Elsternwick and contribute to a healthier environment more broadly.
Learn more about GreenfleetTwo practices, one commitment
Whether you visit us in Frankston or Elsternwick, you’re supporting a practice that takes sustainability seriously. We’re proud to bring this same standard of care, for our patients and for the planet, to both our Central Dental Group locations. We’re not aiming for perfection overnight. We’re aiming for steady, genuine progress, and we’ll keep working at it.