Oral health professionals have the opportunity to be the first to identify the early stages of HIV infection. Rapid HIV testing can be completed in dental settings, with salivary assays generally requiring processing times of 30 minutes or less.
Can you get diseases from dentist?
Dental health care professionals are at risk for acquiring or transmitting hepatitis B, influenza, measles, mumps, rubella and varicella. All these diseases are vaccine-preventable. In the U.S., the risk of HIV transmission in dental settings is extremely low.