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Hiv anxiety killing me piercing of ear

I had got my little daughter ear pierced at a local jeweller shop. The process they do here was they perforated the ear lobe by a sharp silver wire and simaltaneously fit the gold ear stud. When he was inserting the silver wire in the stud I saw him put this wire in his mouth first. And then after 15 seconds he used the same wire to Pierce the lobe. Is there any risk here if he was hiv positive. The wire was put inside the stud and was pulled out of ear lobe along with the stud. Later he removed the silver wire from the stud . So the contact was first from the silver wire and then by gold stud. Only thing that he put in his mouth may be to lubricate was this silver wire.

Please help me on this. I am freaking out. Have I done the worst thing of my life.

Thanks
A fearful Father.
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She had no risk of HIV because a person can't get HIV from oral activities like kissing, licking the wire or from touching HIV on the wire. She is so safe that you don't even need to have her do a test.

HIV is instantly inactivated in air and also instantly in saliva which means it is effectively dead so it can't infect from any oral activities  or from touching it on the wire outside its host. It doesn't matter if both of them were actively bleeding at the time either because the HIV is effectively dead.
Only child non-sex risks are sharing needles that you inject with but she didn't do that so she had no risk. This sentence is all a person needs to know to protect themself against HIV.
Even with blood, lactation cuts, rashes, burns etc air and saliva do not allow inactivated virus to infect from oral activities or from touching it in the air outside its host. The above HIV science is 40 years old and very well established so nothing you can add will make her situation a risk.
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