Article: Lefty Dentists & Inclusive Design / by Robert Stribley

Photo of a dentist working with his patient. The dentist is pointing to dental x-rays with his right hand. The patient is seated within a dental station.

My essay “Lefty Dentists and Inclusive Design” was featured by the UX Collective on their Medium publication, which has over 450,000 followers. In this piece, I discuss how left-handed dentists remind us how the environments we learn and work within can have a profound impact upon our lives, and, especially, upon the lives of more at-risk people, such as those within the LGBTQ+ community and other minority groups.