Strange jaw movement due to the effects of cocaine is quite common. In some cases, users dissolve the cocaine and inject it with needles, so be wary of injecting your hands, forearms, feet, and even your legs.
Cocaine does not make the gums, teeth, tongue or roof of the mouth stronger, but it can cause damage, including receding gums and perforation of the roof of the mouth.
ÓSCAR QUESTION: I refer you to understand the effects that cocaine has on the oral cavity in your group (tongue, maxilla, jaw…) when it is put in cigarette paper and mixed with nicotine.
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Smoked cocaine is not much healthier, quite the opposite, to each and every one of the effects of this ingredient we must add the damage caused by the remains of tobacco, which further strengthen the problems in the gums and teeth. Its high consumption also causes damage to the palate and ulcers in the mouth, which implies inconvenience to swallow and chew normally.
Methamphetamine: is a formidably addictive substance with serious health effects. As far as oral health is concerned, due to its high level of acidity, like cocaine, it damages the teeth quite a bit. It breaks down tooth enamel and decreases saliva production, leaving the mouth dry and helpless. All of the above means countless cavities and severe dental erosion that causes people aged 30 or less to suffer from very severe cavities and suffer from periodontitis.
What physical signs does cocaine leave?
Cocaine leaves its mark in multiple physical signs:
- If an individual tends to sneeze regularly without being constipated, it may be due to frequent cocaine use, as it ends up damaging the nasal passages, resulting in continuous sneezing and also continuous runny nose.
- Another sign of this pathology is when people who consume it tend to scratch or touch their nose regularly. In much more severe cases, bleeding or internal injuries to the nose are recurrent.
- Another organ that demands the cocaine client are the eyes, since in a case like this it is common for cocaine users to find dilated pupils, apart from having red eyes.
- The strange movements of the jaw thanks to the effects of cocaine are quite recurrent.
- In some cases, users dissolve the cocaine and inject it with needles, so beware of manufacturers who inject into the hands, forearms, feet, and even legs.
Long-term effects of cocaine use
An individual who sustains cocaine use for a long time increases the risk of irritability problems, inability to concentrate and cognitive deficits, and ultimately, serious psychiatric disorders. Certain other ordinary individuals have the possibility of developing bulimia and anorexia restlessness and, at the organic level, problems, strokes, cardiac health abnormalities and various respiratory adversities such as nephritic adversities, chronic rhinitis, perforation of the septum or infections by consumption like hepatitis B or hiv. Also inconveniences and severe movement disorders, including Parkinson’s pathology.
Cocaine use, whether in the form of cocaine base, white powder, injected, snorted, snorted, or swallowed, can offer a chance of an overdose and can be fatal. A cocaine overdose can happen even the first time the substance is used. Many times, the cocaine client is simultaneously using alcohol or heroin, a likely harmful mixture.
Ecstasy increases the continuation of periodontal health abnormalities
- As we have seen with many of the preceding drugs, taking ecstasy has recurring effects such as grinding teeth or causing dry mouth.
- We now understand that a dry mouth means a greater propensity for cavities, which increases even more with the consumption of sugary drinks, which usually accompany the ingestion of ecstasy.
- Finally, the advance of periodontal pathologies is common: inflammation, bleeding, gingivitis and periodontitis.
- The effects of amphetamine on oral health are so enormous that it even bears its name, causing what dentists call «amphetamine mouth.» In other words, it causes severe cavities in a short time, while it is formidably acid and therefore destroys dental enamel.
- Another reason is the commented dry mouth, which stimulates the development of bacteria and consequently, in the same way, cavities.
- Lastly, another popular effect is bruxism, as amphetamines in particular can cause a lot of anxiety, which leads to teeth grinding.