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Dayton VA Dental Patients Need Additional Testing for Infectious Diseases

Patients and their family members who received care from the Dayton, Ohio Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) Dental Clinic may not yet be entirely out of the woods. A recent story by WHIO TV highlighted a report that detailed and stressed the need those patients and their families have for further testing to determine if they are at risk for dental care infection.

Severe violations of infection-control protocols put tens of thousands of veterans and their families at risk of contracting infection. U.S. Rep Mike Turner (R-OH) released the report, which spanned 3,000 pages, and ultimately concluded the level of testing already performed was inadequate to address the threat of infection. Various experts combined to author the report, and its release closely follows recent unfortunate developments in the Dayton VA Dental Clinic saga.

More patients have tested positive for infectious diseases. Two new cases of patients with Hepatitis B and one new case of a patient with Hepatitis C have developed. The VA, however, "has not agreed on the need for more testing." This is a much different attitude than originally taken when the infection control-protocol breaches were originally reported, which resulted in VA sponsored testing.

The report addressed more than just more testing being made available for veterans and their families. The report also calls for the development of new law controlling "medical practices at VA clinics" as well as a new "task force," which would be responsible for watching over veteran health care.

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