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Oral Transmission of High Risk HPV
I was recently diagnosed with mild cervical dysplasia due to High Risk HPV. Can I orally pass this high risk strain of to my partner? If so, can he then pass it to me via mouth to mouth?
A related discussion, HPV Just found out I have it was started.
MEDICAL PROFESSIONAL
Most likely yes, but the actual risk isn't known. But if he gets an oral infection, he'll never know it and it probably will never harm him.
The total number of oral cancer cases per year in the US is around 15,000 cases. That's means the risk for any particular person is too low to worry about. Don't worry about it.
The total number of oral cancer cases per year in the US is around 15,000 cases. That's means the risk for any particular person is too low to worry about. Don't worry about it.
Thank you both for your comments. I am just a little worried becasue I heard Oral HPV leads to cancer of the mouth and since there is no way to detect it........
yes, he will answer it shortly I'm sure . . . I'm just a user of the site (I don't work for medhelp) that was trying to be helpful :)
Is there any way the dr. can answer this for me as the previous response doesn't really answer my question.
Can I give him the high risk HPV virus if he preforms oral sex?
From http://www.medhelp.org/forums/STD/messages/4297.html:
"Oral HPV probably can occur, but probably occurs in everybody anyway and causes no symptoms in the mouth; and oral to genital HPV transmission isn't known to occur."
"Oral HPV probably can occur, but probably occurs in everybody anyway and causes no symptoms in the mouth; and oral to genital HPV transmission isn't known to occur."
MEDICAL PROFESSIONAL
The same high-risk HPV strains that can infect the genital area sometimes are found in the mouth. However, there are no data to tell you the chance that you have an oral infection. In other words, to my knowledge nobody has done research in women with high-risk cervical HPV infection to see how many of them have the same virus in the mouth. But even if it is in your mouth, it is probably rarely transmitted from mouth-to-mouth by kissing, or to someone's genital area by oral sex. Nobody can say it doesn't or cannot occur, but it probably is uncommon.
If you have been having sex before or since your cervical HPV infection was discovered, your partner already is infected, at least genitally and perhaps orally. You need take no precautions against transmitting your infection to him; at this point it doesn't matter.
Best wishes-- HHH, MD
If you have been having sex before or since your cervical HPV infection was discovered, your partner already is infected, at least genitally and perhaps orally. You need take no precautions against transmitting your infection to him; at this point it doesn't matter.
Best wishes-- HHH, MD
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