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From: U14663%UICVM.BITNET@mvs.oac.ucla.edu (Richard A. Murphy [phone (312)996-8630])
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Subject: Re: (5) Dentists and Aids
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Date: 19 Feb 91 01:48:10 GMT
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> 	Sorry about the enclosed ignorance in this letter but I don't know
> 	so I've chosen the sledge hammer technique.
>
> 	Don't understand the nature of the risk with Aids and dentist.
>
> 	In the popularized case of the woman contracting aids from her
> 	dentist.  Is this sputum transfer from routine work or is it
> 	a case of "a" dentist decising to take advantage of a patient
> 	while "under".
>
> 	Sorry for the ignorance.  Please advise.
>
The exact method of transmittal to the young woman, and now apparently
two more people, is not known.  But none of these people were put under
a general anaesthetic so there was no possibility that the dentist had
sex with them while they were unconscious.