Highlands Ranch, Denver dentist may have contaminated patientswith HIV and shit for 12 years with re - Polidicks

[quote] A dentist with offices in Highlands Ranch and Cherry Creek reused sedation syringes on patients for nearly 12 years, according to state health officials who are asking thousands of his surgical patients to get tested for HIV and hepatitis. State officials said Dr. Stephen Stein hasn't practiced since June 2011, and another oral surgeon not accused of any wrongdoing took over the office. Stein could not be reached for comment, and the other surgeon, Dr. Jeremy Miner, declined to comment. "Needles and syringes were used repeatedly, often for days at a time," according to a question-and-answer page on the state website. State officials said they do not believe there are risks to Stein patients who got only local, oral anesthetic shots. No infections have been reported so far, officials said. The state is dealing with at least 8,000 patient records, according to Colorado public health director Dr. Chris Urbina. In addition to seeking potential victims by going public with information about the syringes, the state is sending letters to patients who may have received IV sedation from a reused syringe. Patients immediately began searching for help getting testing, and legal and medical experts expressed outrage at the apparent breach of safe practice. Peggy Salyers of Idaho sought testing information for her disabled sister, who she said had, under IV sedation in 2000, wisdom teeth pulled by Stein's practice. Hollynd Hoskins, a Denver attorney who represented victims in the 2009 Rose Medical Center hepatitis C infections, said such alleged reuse is "mind-blowing and indicates an utter disregard of the known consequences of spreading life-threatening diseases." Authorities in other states have pursued criminal prosecutions for negligence in medical situations resulting in patient harm, she said. The focus now is on patients who received IV medications for sedation from September 1999 to June 2011. Those who are unsure whether they received IV medication should get tested anyway, the department said; those who are sure they did not receive an IV do not need to be tested. State officials said patients may be at risk if they saw Stein: • From September 1999 to June 2011 at Stein Oral and Facial Surgery, 8671 S. Quebec St., No. 230, in Highlands Ranch. • From August 2010 to June 2011 at Stein Oral and Facial Surgery, 3737 E. First Ave., Suite B, in Cherry Creek. Patients also were seen at this location by Stein under another name, New Image Dental Implant Center. The department suggested that concerned patients contact their health provider and seek tests for HIV antibody, hepatitis C antibody, and hepatitis B surface antigen and hepatitis B core antibody. The state coordinated with county health departments and others to be ready for a surge of questions and patient contacts once Stein's case became known, Urbina said. Officials said they are still not sure whether patients who saw Stein before 1999 or at other locations are at risk. Stein entered into a cessation of practice agreement with the state dental examiners board June 24, 2011. The state Department of Regulatory Agencies, which oversees medical licensure, said the agreement was unrelated to potential infection questions. However, DORA cannot disclose the reason for the queries it launched in 2011 or the nature of the complaint, said program director Maulid "Mo" Miskell. Miskell said the DORA inquiry did turn up the unsafe IV practices, and it immediately told the health department, either in late March or early April of this year. "When public safety became an issue, we immediately jumped on it," Miskell said. The dental board could restore Stein's right to practice, with conditions, or revoke his license altogether, depending on the ongoing investigation. The public notice about the needles and syringes raised parallels to 2009 hepatitis C infections at Rose Medical Center, where surgery assistant Kristen Parker infected 18 patients by stealing sedation drugs and putting dirty needles back onto anesthesia trays. Urbina agreed that any medical professional should know not to reuse sterile devices on other patients, long before the 2009 Colorado cases dominated headlines. "This is a very unusual case, and that's why we're taking this so seriously," Urbina said. The state noted, however, that there is as yet no infected subject identified who might have infected others through one of the reused needles or syringes. Any cases would be patient-to-patient transmission, whereas in Parker's case a known infected employee could be matched genetically to victims. The state health department does not have any evidence to work with should infections turn up in the Stein patients, Urbina said. Patients may have contracted any infections in various ways, including injection drug use, unprotected sex or other transmission methods, he noted. [/quote] Read more: Highlands Ranch, Denver dentist may have contaminated patients for 12 years - The Denver Post [url]http://www.denverpost.com/breakingnews/ci_21062591/highlands-ranch-denver-dentist-may-have-contaminated-patients#ixzz20nqcsKap[/url] Lazy dick

Put the needles in his gums, proceed to curb stomp.

how lazy can you get

Well fuck.

This is horrible.

As if I needed another reason to loathe dentists.

[QUOTE=Doctor Zedacon;36796614]As if I needed another reason to loathe dentists.[/QUOTE] God [I]damn [B]teeth[/B][/I]

Holy crap, I think I was just about to go to that guy last year when I decided to blow it off.

[QUOTE=Doctor Zedacon;36796614]As if I needed another reason to loathe dentists.[/QUOTE] grr people doing a service for other people grr

This is so fucking weird I literally just got back from the dentist for a filling and they numbed my mouth... Biggest coincidence ever.

Isn't this medical practice 101? Even normal people know reusing syringes is retarded.

oh god I'm getting shots in an hour oh god kill me

Bacteria and grossness behind. Old needles turn like fucking harpoons on a microscopic level even after one use. It shreds apart at the end making for a more painful 'wound'. [IMG]http://images.wikia.com/petdiabetes/images/a/a3/Needles.jpg[/IMG]

[QUOTE=bluesky;36797934]Bacteria and grossness behind. Old needles turn like fucking harpoons on a microscopic level even after one use. It shreds apart at the end making for a more painful 'wound'. [IMG]http://images.wikia.com/petdiabetes/images/a/a3/Needles.jpg[/IMG][/QUOTE] OH THANKS ASSHOLE.

[QUOTE=Doctor Zedacon;36796614]As if I needed another reason to loathe dentists.[/QUOTE] [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k_MbZedlgXU[/media] my thoughts on this

This is really worrying. I live in Colorado and in the Cherry Creek area, and my mom's gotten tons of dental work done along with my siblings. I'll have to tell her about this.

If they find anyone contracted any of those diseases because of him, he needs to be injected with the himself. Jesus, 12 fucking years? Literally [i]thousands[/i] of people could now have hepatitis, HIV, AIDS, and any number of other blood-borne diseases.

hah, i used to live there

I used to live 5 minutes from there. Never went to that place though.