Girls Were Getting Pap Smears at 15 — The Guidelines Changed, Then Took a Decade to Reach Pa #shorts @AaronHartmanMD
Girls Were Getting Pap Smears at 15 — The Guidelines Changed, Then Took a Decade to Reach Pa #shorts @AaronHartmanMD
Uploaded June 2026 | Updated September 2026, 3 weeks ago
Pap smears were routinely given to girls as young as 15 and 16. Unnecessary abnormal results led to surgical procedures that sometimes affected fertility. A 2006 guideline shift recommended waiting until age 21 and extending intervals to 3–5 years for low-risk patients with normal results. Dr. Hartman learned this in the military in 2006 and found almost no one had adopted it when he returned to civilian practice in Richmond in 2007.

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Girls Were Getting Pap Smears at 15 — The Guidelines Changed, Then Took a Decade to Reach Pa #shorts

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