Question about a perceived unique risk.

[Concerned_19881]

So I know that the risk of transmission is vanishingly small with oral sex, but bear with me.

I performed oral sex on a woman, no blood, nothing out of the ordinary on that front. However I had an abcess about a year prior, and I was left with a small... pimple, for lack of a better word, on my gum just above my right front tooth. I know I'm probably beating a dead horse. But if that thing had popped, as it has a few times, would this present a risk during the act? Thanks.

[CurfewX]

This is not a unique risk.  There are hundreds of questions in this forum from people  who gave oral sex with a lesion in their mouth, and as with your event, they  are all non-risk events for HIV.

Saliva has properties that inactivate the virus.   Additionally, HIV must  enter the bloodstream, which is not possible via any minor cut/abrasion/wound.  Any wound sufficient enough to allow for entry of the virus would have to be so severe that its presence would render oral sex impossible.

[Concerned_19881]

Thanks for taking the time to reply, even though I'm re-treading old ground, I really appreciate it. Take care.

[CurfewX]

You're welcome!