Dental Care of Transgenders on Long- Termhormone Therapy

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. 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 060303811, 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. Review Article Open Access Journal of Oral Biology Avens Publishing Group Inviting Innovations J Oral Biol June 2019 Volume 6 Issue 2 © All rights are reserved by Weinstein G, et al. Avens Publishing Group Inviting Innovations