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The global health care crisis caused directly by the vast number of severe COVID-19 cases, and indirectly by reduced access to health care, as well as by limited secondary care provision, had a major impact on specialist services, and subsequently the deterioration of medical and dental conditions, particularly in vulnerable persons. In particular, at present, special care dentistry seems to play a unique role, dealing with a wide range of patients with underlying medical conditions and co-morbidities, phobic individuals, and persons with learning\/physical disabilities. The effective adaptation of health services to the current new reality, based on an empathetic approach and recent guidelines, would allow us to maintain an adequate care provision, minimizing the long-term impact of the pandemic.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/medicina56060294","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2020,6,15]],"date-time":"2020-06-15T03:17:32Z","timestamp":1592191052000},"page":"294","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":17,"title":["Dental Care Provision during Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) Pandemic: The Importance of Continuous Support for Vulnerable Patients"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"56","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-0022-8382","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Arkadiusz","family":"Dziedzic","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Conservative Dentistry with Endodontics, Medical University of Silesia, 40-055 Katowice, Poland"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Marta","family":"Tanasiewicz","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Conservative Dentistry with Endodontics, Medical University of Silesia, 40-055 Katowice, Poland"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-5750-6174","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Monika","family":"Tysi\u0105c-Mi\u015bta","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Prosthodontics and Dental Materials, Medical University of Silesia, 40-055 Katowice, Poland"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2020,6,12]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"1257","DOI":"10.1016\/S0140-6736(20)30806-0","article-title":"Urgent dental care for patients during the COVID-19 pandemic","volume":"395","author":"Dave","year":"2020","journal-title":"Lancet"},{"key":"ref_2","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"481","DOI":"10.1177\/0022034520914246","article-title":"Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19): Emerging and Future Challenges for Dental and Oral Medicine","volume":"99","author":"Meng","year":"2020","journal-title":"J. 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