Management and coping of dental clinics during the COVID-19 pandemic: a cross-sectional study in three countries.

Dental practitioners from three very different countries around the world faced similar challenges in their practices during the first months of the COVID-19 pandemic. Although most participants adjusted to the alterations in their professional routines necessitated by pandemic-related restrictions, these modifications also resulted in shifts in clinicians' workloads, elevated expenditures, and reduced income. Public health guidelines provided to dental practices by the authorities were not always clear. Understanding these challenges and how to deal with them should help cope better with future worldwide crises.