HIV Risk from giving oral post dental cleaning?

[tlc12022013]

First and foremost, thanks for your time in reading this and responding.

I know from reading the posts on here that the risk of getting HIV from giving a man a blow job is very,very slim, however, I wanted to ask what are the dangers of giving a blow job a few hours after a dental cleaning?

I am a female and had a "friends with benefits" with a man for about 4 months. We had condom protected vaginal sex about 4 times in that 4 month period. I gave him oral without a condom about 5 times within that 4 month period. He told me that he had been tested a few months prior to our first interaction and was HIV negative and didn't have any other STI's. In our last sexual interaction, I only gave him a blow job, however, it was roughly 3-4 hours after having a dental cleaning in which my gums bled a bit. My gums were not bleeding at all when I gave him a blow job. He came in my mouth and I immediately swallowed.

I had a Uni-Gold rapid test 35 days after the last blow job a mentioned above and 106 days after our first sexual encounter. It came back negative for both HIV 1 & 2. I also got tested for all STI's and came back fine on those too. Do you think that I have any cause to worry at all? The person who administered the test at the clinic told me that even though the last occurrence was under 3 months and we used protection during vaginal intercourse there was no need to repeat the test as I was tested past the 4 week mark and oral sex carries a very low risk but I would love a second opinion.

Any advise will be greatly appreciated. Thanks.

(Please note: I thought I was posting to the doctors board when I posted this before and made a mistake. If you guys see this post twice please answer this one. I am going to see how to delete the other one now. I have no intent on spamming you guys! I just want an honest answer.)

[Edward W Hook, MD]

Welcome to the Forum.  As I suspect you can imagine, there are no studies of this particular situation however the risk of HIV following dental cleaning is certainly no greater than the risk might be if you had an open sore or bad gum disease at the time you performed oral sex on him.  On average, the risk for acquiring HIV, IF your partner had HIV (sounds unlikely unless there is something that was not mentioned) is less than 1 infection in 10,000 oral sex acts (i.e. like performing oral sex on an infected partner once a day for over 27 years)   .  I would not be worried.

Your recent test results support the absence of risk even more.  At 5 weeks (35 days) well over 90% of recent HIV infections would have been detected by the test you had.

If I were you, I would not worry and see little need to repeat the HIV test unless you are particularly concerned.  I hope this comment is helpful. EWH

[tlc12022013]

Thank you Doctor Hook for your advice and for welcoming me to the forum.

Thanks for providing not just advice but facts on the matter too. This is immensely helpful. I feel much better and will take your advice (and that of my health practitioner) to not retest at this time, especially since I haven't engaged in any risky activities since then. I will of course be sure to be safer moving forward and make STI testing routine as needed.

Thanks again for all of your help. Hope all is well.

[Edward W Hook, MD]

I'm pleased I could help.. Take care. EWH