No one knows the answer to this for sure, though there are a lot of doctors talking like they do. We don't know the life cycle of HPV16 at all, (It's in science circles called the life history of the virus). It has only been two years ago that we were able to actually culture it outside a body in a petri dish to show you how far we are behind the curve. We do not know if it goes dormant in you at all let alone for how long, we don't know if it has a long latency period in people once they are infected before it does harm (in the oral cavity - in the cervix it can be more than two years) If your body clears it, then the onco-proteins that it produces that convert the cell to an immortal cancer cell are not expressed. So not a lot of absolutes in this, nor in most cancers for that matter.

But I think you have done all you can and be proud that you did. Responsible parenting, sometimes appears not to occur in many...