Special Care Dentistry 1 article

Special care dentistry provides oral healthcare for people whose physical, sensory, intellectual, medical, psychological or social circumstances create additional barriers to conventional dental treatment. Care may require adapted communication, clinical environments, preventive plans, sedation, multidisciplinary coordination or modified treatment strategies. The specialty is defined by complexity of patient need rather than by age or a particular disease. It therefore overlaps with geriatric, hospital and community dentistry without being identical to any one of them.