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Can HIV be transmitted from dental personnel to patients by dentistry?
1Centre for the Study of Oral Disease, University of Bristol Dental School.
British Dental Journal
|November 20, 1993
Abstract:
Over 19,000 patients treated by 57 HIV-infected health care workers (HCWs) have been tested for HIV. Apart from the notorious Florida dental case, no patient has been shown to be infected by treatment given by an HIV-infected HCW. Cases of 10 HIV-infected HCWs have been examined in some depth. The evidence indicates that HIV transmission from HCWs to patient is exceedingly improbable, and almost impossible where recommended infection control procedures are adhered to.