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

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

By Mariano Castillo, CNN

updated 1:43 PM EDT, Fri March 29, 2013

 

(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."

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