Features of emergency dental care and anesthesia in people with methamphetamine dependence (literature review)

Abstract

At present, the number of methamphetamine consu­mers all over the world is at least 51 million people. The percen­tage of drug addiction treatment hospital admissions in the United States due to primary methamphetamine use is growing exponentially. Based on the results of a study by the National Institute on Drug Abuse (USA), it was found that the use of methamphetamine has a significant destructive effect on the health of the mouth and teeth. The supervision of such dental patients is clinically a problem due to delayed visits and inadequate response of the body to anesthetic drugs.

Keywords

• methamphetamine
• drug addiction
• dental complications
• features of anesthesia