it s hard to believe that we re still talking about this topic but here we go. our veterans our warriors failed again by a system that is supposed to help them. this time, more than 500 vets around dayton, ohio, are learning that their va dental clinic might have exposed them to hiv and hepatitis b or c. and, once again, it was totally preventible with no well, with simple no-brainer hygiene. here is the disaster in a nutshell. a report states that a clinic dentist was so sloppy, so unsanitary he did things like hold the denture of one patient while opening the mouth of another. he used the same instruments all day long on every patient without sterilizing the tools. wore dirty gloves while pushing elevator buttons.