Borglin L, Pekarski S, Saget S, Duane B. The life cycle analysis of a dental examination: Quantifying the environmental burden of an examination in a hypothetical dental practice. Community Dent Oral Epidemiol. 2021;49:581–593. https://doi.org/10.1111/cdoe.12630
When calculating the amount of electricity used in a dental examination, specifically the dental unit use, there was an error in the calculation. The correct amount of electricity consumed from the dental unit is 0.169 kWh (not 1.15 kWh). This error affects the results and figures published but not the overall discussion and conclusion of the article.
We apologize for this error.
Attached are the corrected figures and tables. (Tables 2 and 3)
Appendix 2. Life cycle inventory
A summary of the average time, energy and water usage of an examination and the estimated usage time of instruments during each procedure. Adapted from (Duane et al. 2014).
Appendix 3 Table showing the figures of the contribution of each process for all impact categories. See Figure 2 for the relative graph of these results.