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Bleeding and kissing
Dear doctor,
I red some answers about this subject, but I am afraid that my situation is a bit different because it was nothing to do with bleeding gums, it was an actually bleeding from a infected tooth.
Thank you if you can help.
The other day some dental restorative material came out from a tooth and I started to feel some pain. Two days after I was deep french kissing with a person that I don't know very well and I stopped kissing because I started to taste blood coming from that tooth. I thought it was me feeling that (but I know now it was the tooth or infected tooth actually bleeding - from the inside) and I continued kissing (deep french kissing while bleeding from the infected tooth). I am afraid that I could got hiv from this person. what are the chances from getting hiv in this situation, as I was bleeding from that tooth not from bleeding gums - (tasting the blood) and kissing at the same time?
Thank you very much for helping I am scared.
M.
I red some answers about this subject, but I am afraid that my situation is a bit different because it was nothing to do with bleeding gums, it was an actually bleeding from a infected tooth.
Thank you if you can help.
The other day some dental restorative material came out from a tooth and I started to feel some pain. Two days after I was deep french kissing with a person that I don't know very well and I stopped kissing because I started to taste blood coming from that tooth. I thought it was me feeling that (but I know now it was the tooth or infected tooth actually bleeding - from the inside) and I continued kissing (deep french kissing while bleeding from the infected tooth). I am afraid that I could got hiv from this person. what are the chances from getting hiv in this situation, as I was bleeding from that tooth not from bleeding gums - (tasting the blood) and kissing at the same time?
Thank you very much for helping I am scared.
M.
Saliva contains over a dozen different proteins and enzymes that inhibits HIV transmission, you never had a exposure.
Hi. The risk you describe is theorethical. You'll need the other person blood for transmission to occur. Kissing itself is not a risk. Saliva is not infectious.
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