Transgender HIV status, self‐perceived dental care barriers, and residents’ stigma, willingness to treat them in a community dental outreach program: Cross‐sectional study

Abstract

The self-perceived oral health of transgender' was poor corresponding to the clinical examination findings. Moreover, the stigmatizing attitude and low regard to provide oral care is rampant among the dental residents, which further frustrates dental care.

Oral health self-perception for transgender people: a controlled cross-sectional study

“…As in the present study, Samuel et al (2018) also noted that transgender people reported not being satisfied with the quality of their oral health. Moreover, studies without gender distinction (or gender diversity) (Esmeriz et al 2012;Freire et al 2012;Moura et al 2014;Milagres et al 2018) showed that the prevalence of people satisfied with oral health is higher than dissatisfied ones, which just occurred in the control group.…”

“…The self-reported need for dental treatment is complex and multidetermined and may be affected by the existence of oral diseases and socioeconomic variables (Moreira et al 2009;Moura et al 2014;Samuel et al 2018). Reinforcing this statement, the studies by Samuel et al (2018) and Muralidharan et al (2018) observed that transgender people have high rates of oral diseases, which could help to understand the higher self-reported need for dental treatment identified in the present study. However, the data on oral diseases were not collected in the groups studied to confirm this relationship.…”

“…Although this study did not identify differences in the access to dental services, this is not the reality observed by other researchers who studied populations of transgender people (Samuel et al 2018;Muralidharan et al 2018). The study by Samuel et al (2018) with Indian transgenders identified low access to dental services, which was related to a refusal by dental surgeons to provide care.…”

“…Although this study did not identify differences in the access to dental services, this is not the reality observed by other researchers who studied populations of transgender people (Samuel et al 2018;Muralidharan et al 2018). The study by Samuel et al (2018) with Indian transgenders identified low access to dental services, which was related to a refusal by dental surgeons to provide care. Muralidharan et al (2018), when investigating men who have sex with other men and transgender people, also observed low access to health services, which was related to fear, lack of awareness, or financial restrictions.…”

Development of a Questionnaire to Assess the Perception of Dentists Towards Transgender Patients

“…It is evident from the review of articles that transgender population has an increased prevalence of oral diseases and 21,22 less utilization of dental sevices. The discrimination shown by the dentists towards transgender patients is one of the cause for the development of this questionnaire.…”