diff --git a/clang/lib/Tooling/Transformer/Stencil.cpp b/clang/lib/Tooling/Transformer/Stencil.cpp
--- a/clang/lib/Tooling/Transformer/Stencil.cpp
+++ b/clang/lib/Tooling/Transformer/Stencil.cpp
@@ -73,6 +73,21 @@
   return match(SmartPointer, Ty, Context).size() > 0;
 }
 
+static const Expr *isDereference(const Expr &E, ASTContext &Context) {
+  using namespace ::clang::ast_matchers;
+
+  const auto HasOverloadedArrow = cxxRecordDecl(hasMethod(cxxMethodDecl(
+      hasOverloadedOperatorName("->"), returns(qualType(pointsTo(type()))))));
+  auto Deref = expr(anyOf(
+      cxxOperatorCallExpr(hasOverloadedOperatorName("*"),
+                          hasUnaryOperand(expr().bind("arg")),
+                          callee(cxxMethodDecl(ofClass(HasOverloadedArrow)))),
+      unaryOperator(hasOperatorName("*"),
+                    hasUnaryOperand(expr().bind("arg")))));
+  auto matches = match(Deref, E, Context);
+  return selectFirst<Expr>("arg", matches);
+}
+
 namespace {
 // An arbitrary fragment of code within a stencil.
 class RawTextStencil : public StencilInterface {
@@ -309,6 +324,8 @@
           }
         }
         S = tooling::buildArrow(*E, *Match.Context);
+      } else if (const auto *Operand = isDereference(*E, *Match.Context)) {
+        S = tooling::buildArrow(*Operand, *Match.Context);
       } else {
         S = tooling::buildDot(*E, *Match.Context);
       }
diff --git a/clang/unittests/Tooling/StencilTest.cpp b/clang/unittests/Tooling/StencilTest.cpp
--- a/clang/unittests/Tooling/StencilTest.cpp
+++ b/clang/unittests/Tooling/StencilTest.cpp
@@ -407,7 +407,7 @@
     *x;
   )cc";
   StringRef Id = "id";
-  testExpr(Id, Snippet, access(Id, "field"), "(*x).field");
+  testExpr(Id, Snippet, access(Id, "field"), "x->field");
 }
 
 TEST_F(StencilTest, AccessOpSmartPointerMemberCall) {