Study on HIV and Dental Tools

Regarding your recent article on AIDS and “contaminated” dental instruments, if indeed the virus were spread in the manner suggested, the disease would be already pandemic, making the “Black Death” appear pearl gray.

We have been told since AIDS has become common knowledge that the virus is very weak, destroyed by air or drying; both of these concepts cannot be true. If what this group reports is true, we now have to fear toilet seats, restaurant cups and glasses, cutlery and used chewing gum.

We have a few known cases of AIDS attributable to dental treatment by one dentist dying of AIDS, with blood transfer probable. I much prefer Occam’s razor and a somewhat less threatening world.

DONALD HUNT

Studio City