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The complexity found in special care dentistry brings with it tensions and paradoxes, requiring practitioners to engage with creative, reflexive and collaborative ways of working and thinking. This collection of articles from the British Dental Journal brings together research, opinion and best practice from across the specialty to provide a broad overview of the current state of special care dentistry.