Dr. Bragdon Perseveres
Rudman & Winchell
In 1987, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), in its Recommendations for Prevention of HIV Transmission in Health-Care Settings, warned dentists that ordinary precautions (i.e., the gloves, masks, instrument manipulation techniques, and so forth used on every patient to help prevent disease transmission) should be the minimum precautions for all dental procedures during which bleeding occurs or the potential for bleeding exists.