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Alberta Health Services has shut down an illegal dental clinic in Calgary that was operating in the basement of a house in the southwest community of Somerset. As Tony Tighe reports, anyone who had a dental treatment there is being warned the equipment may not have been sanitized.
Alberta Health Services (AHS) is urging patients who received dental care at a home-based operation in southwest Calgary to get tested, warning they have been exposed to viruses including hepatitis B, hepatitis C and HIV.
AHS said the dental operation, located at 20 Somervale Close S.W., was unlicensed and unsanitary.
In a Tuesday news release, Medical Officer of Health for Calgary Zone, Dr. Judy MacDonald, said the operation “did not have these proper sterilization or sanitation processes in place.”
She added that appropriate cleaning, disinfection and sterilization of the dental instruments wasn’t done at all, meaning patients “might have been exposed to blood-born viruses.
The operation was ordered to close on March 21.