Dental Practice Wastewater Discharge Program

Dental Best Practices

The dental best management practices (PDF) prevent the release of mercury or silver (PDF) to the environment. We strongly encourage all dental offices to recycle:

• Lead foil
• Malgam
• Mercury (PDF)
• X-ray fixer

Required Implementation

Dental practices required to implement best management practices (BMP) are:

• Endodontics
• Oral and maxillofacial surgery
• Oral medicine
• Oral pathology
• Orthodontics
• Periodontics
• Prosthodontics
• Radiology