Carelessness of the dentist, 22000 patients must take HIV tests

More than 22000 patients in England are required tests to check for any sexually transmitted virus-infected blood or not, including HIV, due to the carelessness of the dentist that they came to visit.

Carelessness of the dentist, 22000 patients have to take HIV tests.

According to the press, this dentist practice suspended after being accused of violation of the standards of infection control. This violation was a patient secretly filmed.

The Agency's national health service (NHS) said this dental treatment for patients in Nottingham in the 32-year period, and they want to summon all to check the risk of spreading sexually transmitted diseases such as HIV blood, hepatitis B, hepatitis C ... or not.

According to the Nottingham Post, this is the service of summons many patients in medical history. Also Daily Mail leads many news sources say more than 160 patients were grouped as "high risk" patients.

However a spokesman for the NHS says that health status of dentists on quite well and he is not infected with HIV, so the risk to patients is to be low.=

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