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Because you might have caught this from a dentist. im scared. i am scared. ive been up all night last night. now we just have to sit and wait. and that part is going to be the hardest part is the waiting. >> reporter: a year ago this teenage patient says he went to dr. hairingtons office to have three mole ars removed. what happened next is an excruciating ordeal. >> i was just like bleeding, like profusely. it wouldnt stop. it was gushing. and it was just pouring out of my mouth. >> this is all...

Youre at risk of contracting hepatitis c and the hiv virus from treatment by that doctor. theyre being told, according to this letter, that testing to be. they had originally said saturday, and now it appears the testing for all of those thousands of patients will start monday. then they have have two to three-week wait to get the results. >> shepard: to the people who have been through this and inside the doctors office with us, susan rogers is the director of the oklahoma board of dentistry. s...

Im sure with 7,000 plus people being possibly exposed to this, it will just be crazy. it will just be madness. i do plan on getting tested as well as my mother, my uncle and my cousin were all exposed to this as well. we all went to this doctor. >> does it make you angry, the fact that your own health might be at risk here? >> yeah, for sure. thats the last thing in the world that you are going to think going in to get your wisdom teeth out that you are going to be exposed to hiv or hepatitis. t...

World youre going to think in getting your wisdom teeth taken out, getting exposed to hiv or hepatitis. >> reporter: his dentist, dr. scott harrington, came under suspicion after a different patient was diagnosed with hiv and hepatitis c. investigators for oklahomas board of den trtistry said what they found was enough to turn their stomachs. >> whe were physically sick. thats how bad. ive seen a lot of bad stuff over the years. >> reporter: inspectors came up with so much bad stuff, they filed ...

I know youre not a medical professional. >> yeah. jenna: the benefit of these drugs some say are great for people that need it for pain. >> absolutely. jenna: one wonders when we see this type of rise in addiction too. >> they have a by-product. there is actual medical application for people suffering from all different kinds of pains, cancers. they are beneficial when taken as prescribed under medical supervision they have an application. they also have a downside. i think it is the downside th...

And then it was awarded to me. i would have been out in the street looking for heroin to shoot up. i needed. it i dont want to abuse myself in that way. it is a free crai. it is a free country. stay out of it. >> now you have taken it too far. >> jedediah said he is a doctor and emergency room doctors can prescribe three days worth of pain pills. my question is what is three days worth of a pain pill? >> i have never take answer pain medication even with my wisdom teeth out. i have no idea what ...

>> fat caw neighed yens are -- fat canadians are bagging on everybody. >> they are the only people who appreciate the glebs i make every holiday. >> the what? >> the chocolate colored wisdom teeth. >> crunchy. >> how do you make those? >> you just save wisdom teeth and then coat themn chocolate and then give them to people. >> he will have that on-line to get the full recipe. >> they come in boxes of 4,000. thats a lot of wisdom, my friend. we will close things out with a post game wrap up with ...

Thing that happened ten years ago, and maybe that was somewhere near the beginning of this. and i think at that point, it was easier for people to have a context for it. >> it radically altered your life. you talk about ordinary needs being difficult, getting your aching wisdom teeth attended to. everything required complicated self-operations. if a housekeeper came into your home, you had to go into a bathroom and lock yourself in. >> other examples. >> the wisdom teeth thing was ridiculous bec...

>> dentistry first. the wisdom teeth are fine, thanks. >> thank god. >> you do, though, talk about one of your greatest regrets is the fact that you could not be a regular father. >> it was much harder. i think in the end, i managed it and actually we came out of this much closer maybe as a result. you know, he was 9 when this attack began. he was more or less 21 when it finished. so he had to grow up through this and suffer the loss of his mother during that time. but i did my best. we actually...

Doctors and the best methods of uh leaving pain. what is wrong? >> most come from mexico though, dont they? >> i wouldnt know. >> it is good stuff. >> we are chugging along and our economy is -- no, wait. we are in the tank. this is a problem. >> is this 80% or is this one of the statistics that makes great television, but it is like saying -- >> i believe it. but i think it is terrible. obviously i am the prude on the show. but i recently saw an ad for a massage. the headlines said "you havent ...