A Meth mouth case

Oral manifestations of "meth mouth": a case report.

AIM The aim of the documentation of this clinical case is to make clinicians aware of "meth mouth" and the medical risks associated with this serious condition. BACKGROUND Methamphetamine is a very addictive, powerful stimulant that increases wakefulness and physical activity and can produce other effects such as cardiac dysrhythmias, hypertension, hallucinations, and violent behavior. Dental...

Meth Mouth—A Growing Epidemic in Dentistry?

In the past two decades, the synthetic style and fashion drug "crystal meth" ("crystal", "meth"), chemically representing the crystalline form of the methamphetamine hydrochloride, has become more and more popular in the United States, in Eastern Europe, and just recently in Central and Western Europe. "Meth" is cheap, easy to synthesize and to market, and has an extremely high potential for ab...

Methamphetamine abuse and “meth mouth” in Europe

With easy chemical synthesis from its precursor, methamphetamine (MA) is now widespread in many countries. The abuse of methamphetamine is associated with several negative effects on health, because MA is a neurotoxin and a dangerous central nervous system stimulant. It changes levels of neurotransmitters in the brain, releasing dopamine and inhibiting nor epinephrine uptake which increases sym...

Full mouth rehabilitation. A case report.

Chemically Induced BALB/c Meth A Sarcoma

A M, 110,000 glycoprotein, designated gpllO, isolated from the concanavalin A-Sepharose-binding protein fraction of the chemically induced BALB/c Meth A sarcoma by Mono Q fast protein liquid chromatography, has been shown to: (a) increase the resistance of these mice to growth of the Meth A sarcoma, but not the antigenically unrelated BALB/c (1-4 sarcoma, and (b) induce an antitumor cellular im...