Oklahoma dentist called 'public health menace'

Free health screenings start today for patients of an Oklahoma dentist who’s being called a public “health menace.”   His Tulsa office was reportedly so unsanitary, it made investigators sick.

W. Scott Harrington may have exposed up to 7,000 patients to HIV and hepatitis over the past six years. Health officials will start screening his patients for possible exposure today.  CNN's Susan Candiotti says people will be get  three blood tests for hepatitis B, C and HIV.  The results will take about two weeks.

Susan Rogers, executive director of the Oklahoma Board of Dentistry called the case one of the worst she's ever seen.   The dirty conditions included rusted equipment, needles reused in drug vials and non-sterile gauze.

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