{"id":199901,"date":"2026-05-22T15:28:31","date_gmt":"2026-05-22T15:28:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/199901\/"},"modified":"2026-05-22T15:28:31","modified_gmt":"2026-05-22T15:28:31","slug":"health-department-warns-patients-of-potential-hiv-hepatitis-exposure-at-a-pennsylvania-dental-clinic-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/199901\/","title":{"rendered":"Health department warns patients of potential HIV, hepatitis exposure at a Pennsylvania dental clinic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) &#8211; Patients at a Philadelphia dental practice are being urged to get tested for possible HIV and hepatitis exposure.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">This comes after Dr. Kirti Chopra\u2019s license to practice dentistry was suspended and her practice was shut down while health officials conducted an investigation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">\u201cOur team went out with them to conduct an on-site visit to document the practices at the dentist\u2019s office,\u201d James Garrow, a spokesperson for the Philadelphia Department of Public Health, said. \u201cIt ends up being a lot of possibility of transfer of bodily fluids between patients.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">State health officials said they received complaints about possible unsanitary practices at Chopra\u2019s clinic, called Smiles at Rittenhouse Square.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Pennsylvania\u2019s Department of State temporarily suspended her license last week.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 WPVI via CNN Newsource. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) &#8211; Patients at a Philadelphia dental practice are being urged to get tested for possible HIV&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":199882,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[11754,88547,88551,88552,23147,88544,88550,88545,28,30,29,88548,88546,88549],"class_list":["post-199901","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pennsylvania","tag-dentist","tag-dr-kirti-chopra","tag-hepatitis-exposure","tag-hepatitis-exposure-at-dental-clinic","tag-hiv","tag-hiv-exposure","tag-kirti-chopra-clinic-closed","tag-patients-possibly-exposed-to-hiv-hepatitis-at-dental-clinic","tag-pennsylvania","tag-pennsylvania-headlines","tag-pennsylvania-news","tag-smiles-at-rittenhouse-square","tag-unsanitary-dental-clinic","tag-why-did-chopra-dental-clinic-close"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199901","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=199901"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199901\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/199882"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199901"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199901"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199901"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}