Broward Circuit Judge Nicholas Lopane gave the green light to a class-action lawsuit that alleges Nova Southeastern University’s post-graduate orthodontic clinic risked patients contracting blood borne diseases, like HIV and hepatitis B and C, by failing to properly sterilize equipment.

Davie resident TIffany Aguero, the mother of one patient, sued for negligence in December 2018 after she and about 1,100 others received a letter from NSU saying that they or their children might have been affected by a breach in protocol at one clinic.