Can I get Hepatite C from develovipng a picture froma a paitient's tooth?
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The risk of contracting HepC from contact with saliva is moderate. Highest risk is blood-to-blood, lowest is urine, sweat, breast milk.
The most important thing is that you are wearing gloves and practising a good infection control procedure.
Secondly, wash your hands between gloves changes or use an alcohol gel.
Other measures include:
- for the dentist to swab off excess saliva with a disinfectant before passing the contaminated Xray to you. You must be wearing gloves.
- better still, to use Xrays with barrier envelopes. In these cases you have stripped off your gloves and the dentist peels out the clean Xray envelope for you to take. This also stops cross-infection of your Xray processor.
If you have any cuts on your hands, these should be covered with plastic spray (e.g. "Elastoplast spray") and a Band-Aid.
There is NO VACCINE for HepC and no effective post-exposure prophylaxis.
HEP c can be contracted by saliva, blood sex etc.. but u would need to have alot of saliva to contracted it and a open wound, HEP C can live a long time out of the body without dying ( longer then HIV) .. are u working as a dental nurse? beacause if u are i would seriously suggest talking to ure employers about cross infection control as u are putting ureself and others at risk if u need to ask that question.. i mean this in a nice way, just thinking of you
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