International Journal of Oral Health Sciences and Advances

  • Year: 2014
  • Volume: 2
  • Issue: 3

Measures to avoid risk of HIV transmission with oral surgical procedures – An update

  • Author:
  • Rakshit Vijay Sinai Khandeparker1, Hunny Jain, Vikas Berwal, Savant Kiran, Vinayak G. Naik
  • Total Page Count: 5
  • DOI:
  • Page Number: 7 to 11

*Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, Bapuji Dental College & Hospital , Davangere, Karnataka

**Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, Yogita Dental College Khed, Ratnagiri

***Senior Lecturer, Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, PGIDS, Rohtak

Abstract

The increasing prevalence of HIV increases the risk that health-care workers will be exposed to blood from patients infected with HIV, especially when blood and body-fluid precautions are not followed for all patients. Thus, this review emphasizes the need for health-care workers to consider all patients as potentially infected with HIV and/or other blood-borne pathogens and to adhere rigorously to infection-control precautions for minimizing the risk of exposure to blood and body fluids of all patients.

Keywords

Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), Acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS), HIV transmission prevention, Blood borne viruses