Dentist's office a 'perfect storm' for HIV, hepatitis exposure, health official says

HIV tests urged for 7,000 dental patients

(CNN) -- About 7,000 patients who visited a suburban Tulsa, Oklahoma, dentist in the past six years may have been exposed to HIV and hepatitis, health investigators say.

Investigators were left grasping for words to describe what they found inside W. Scott Harrington's dental practice: Assistants did techniques that only a dentist should, and sterilization procedures and needles were handled improperly.

"I will tell you that when ... we left, we were just physically kind of sick," said Susan Rogers, executive director of the Oklahoma Board of Dentistry. "I mean, that's how bad (it was), and I've seen a lot of bad stuff over the years."

The state health department will offer free HIV and hepatitis testing to the thousands of patients who sat in Harrington's chairs.

http://www.cnn.com/2013/03/29/health/oklahoma-dental-warning/index.html?hpt=hp_t1

I heard about this on the news this morning. I had planned on going to see my dentist within the next couple of months. Now, I'm having second thoughts. What a hell of a pickle to be in. Should I risk catching some horrible disease or should I just let my teeth fall out?

This just makes me not wanna go to hospitals. Yuck.

how exactly? okay it may be a nasty place, in reality most hospitals and dr. offices are.

but how exactly were 7000 exposed specifically to HIV and hepatitis?

Timmy84 said:

This just makes me not wanna go to hospitals. Yuck.

that looks more like someone's house in diguise.

ufoclub said:

Timmy84 said:

This just makes me not wanna go to hospitals. Yuck.

that looks more like someone's house in diguise.

like a salon in someones basement

girl, I'm gone get my teefs did

[Edited 3/29/13 21:23pm]