New Green Dentistry video!
Check out our new Green Dentistry video!
"Being green to me means being green in my personal and my professional life."
--Dr. Nammy Patel
San Francisco's Green Dentist,
and Founder of ToothHugger!

This post is a collaboration between Mashable’s Summer of Social Good charitable fundraiser and Max Gladwell’s “10 Ways” series. The post is being simultaneously published across more than 100 blogs.
Our wonderful friends at The Natural Dentist helped us update their info page with an amazing list of FAQs on their products and green oral care in general.
We get this question a lot. Here’s what it says on Tom’s of Maine Web site:
We use 100% aluminum tubes because they are environmentally sensitive. They are recyclable in most communities. They also help maintain our natural flavors. The tubes that we use are lined with a thin layer of food-grade plastic (meaning a pharmaceutical grade inert epoxy which is approved safe for use with food ingestibles) that prevents the toothpaste from coming into contact with the aluminum.
ToothHugger had the pleasure of sitting down with the man behind Dr. Ken’s mission, founder and CEO Dr. Ken Nussen, and learn a little more about what drives his vision for green oral health care.