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Risk of having HIV infection from a cut on the penis

HI,
I am a 25 bisexual male. I received unprotected oral sex from another male. During the process, his teeth accidentally made a small cut on my penis. Is it possible to get an infection through this open wound? And also I am imagining a senario that he got a cut also in his mouth or have bleeding gum, will I get the infection by the blood leaving his cut/gum in contact with the cut on my penis?
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thanks for the quick reply.
i read this from a web:
Saliva—is NOT considered to be infectious. The only time saliva would pose a risk would be if it had blood present in it. There are no documented cases of HIV transmission through saliva. There is a protein in the mouth that attaches itself to the surface of blood cells and blocks infection by HIV that appears to be present in the mucous membrane in the mouth at a level sufficient enough to reduce the concentration of HIV in saliva to non-infectious levels.

So that's why even if that guy is bleeding in his mouth, i would be at no risk even though i had a cut on my penis?
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You are not in a risk at all. Saliva has over a dozen enzymes and proteins that inhibit HIV.
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so even if his mouth is bleeding and i got a cut on my penis which was caused by him during oral sex, i should be in the low risk group?
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You didn't have a risk of contracting HIV from oral sex.
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