Journal of Oral Biology
Review Article
Dental Care of Transgenders on Long- Termhormone Therapy
Geraldine Weinstein*
Division of General Dentistry, University of Connecticut School of Dental Medicine, USA
*Address for Correspondence: Geraldine Weinstein, Division of General Dentistry, 263 Farmington Ave, Suite LM031, Farmington, CT USA 06030-3811, USA, E-mail: gweinstein@uchc.edu
Submission: 21 May, 2019;
Accepted: 12 June, 2019;
Published: 14 June, 2019
Copyright: © 2019 Weinstein G, et al. This is an open access article
distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which
permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium,
provided the original work is properly cited.
Abstract
Recent studies in the United States have noted that there are over
a million individuals who identify as transgenders and have begun the
process of hormone therapy. Such therapy regiments allow the individual
to transform from the birth gender to the desired gender. The time frame
of the hormone therapy extends over a lifetime and can have some health
consequences for the individual. It is therefore paramount to the dentist’s
understanding what the health risks of a transgender on hormonal therapy
can be in order to make appropriate decisions in these patients’s dental
treatment.