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Volume 33 Issue 1, January 2026
Sex, Gender and Sexuality in Oral Health Research: From the Laboratory to Broader Society
- Guest Editor: Lisa Jamieson
Open AccessResearch articleFirst published December 19, 2025pp. 2–3
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The persistent underrepresentation of female animals in biomedical research, particularly in medical and dental sciences, has significant implications for research quality, translational validity and patient safety. In dental preclinical studies, the ...Restricted accessResearch articleFirst published December 19, 2025pp. 4–8
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Oral mucositis is a significant side effect of chemotherapy, radiotherapy, or their combination in cancer patients. Current clinical management focuses primarily on symptom control, with few effective therapeutic agents. Understanding the factors ...Restricted accessResearch articleFirst published December 19, 2025pp. 9–12
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Sex and gender are widely recognised as determinants of health, influencing general and oral health outcomes. In this conceptual article, we argue that the potential of sex- and gender-based oral health research to deliver transformative insights into ...Restricted accessResearch articleFirst published December 19, 2025pp. 13–16
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This study uses an intersectional framework to examine how race, gender, and sexual orientation jointly influence access to dental care in the United States. Leveraging cross-sectional data from the All of Us Research Program, we applied multilevel ...Open AccessResearch articleFirst published December 19, 2025pp. 17–21
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This commentary examines how the systematic exclusion of voices across gender, sexuality, and race shapes oral epidemiology to serve the interests of a few powerful groups. Focusing on the core functions of the field, including description of disease ...Open AccessResearch articleFirst published December 19, 2025pp. 22–25
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Sex, gender, and sexuality are crucial and interrelated factors influencing oral health outcomes, yet they are often overlooked and inadequately addressed in human studies on oral health. Biological sex influences oral disease susceptibility through ...Open AccessResearch articleFirst published December 19, 2025pp. 26–30
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Sex, gender, and sexual orientation are multidimensional constructs that influence representation, inclusion, and outcomes in the oral health workforce. Despite demographic shifts in dental education, persistent inequities related to these identities ...Open AccessResearch articleFirst published December 19, 2025pp. 31–34
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Gender and sexual identity–based inequities remain entrenched within Nigeria’s oral health workforce yet remain underexplored in both policy and academic literature. This study explored gender-based disparities and the representation of sexual and gender ...Restricted accessResearch articleFirst published December 19, 2025pp. 35–38
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