Drug Addicted Patients – Oral Health and Management // Наркозависими пациенти – орално здраве и мениджмънт

Drugs are chemicals that affect a person's physical, mental and social functions by altering them in various ways. Drug use and abuse have increased in recent years and are socially significant worldwide. Increasingly, various medical professionals are involved in preventive and therapeutic activities related to substance-dependent patients. The professional training and awareness of individual doctors are at different levels. This requires a generalization of the problem and related oral and somatic pathology. Relatively often, in general dental practice, diagnosing various diseases of the oral mucosa and hard dental tissues, dentists are faced with general somatic conditions and diseases. Some of them may be related to the use and abuse of certain substances. Given the growing number of drug addicts worldwide, dentists are increasingly working with people who abuse drugs. The observed oral pathology is always severe, but it is not yet described in sufficient detail in the scientific literature. The detection of changes in the oral mucosa and hard tooth tissues in drug addicts and the development of an explicit algorithm of work aimed at prevention and treatment reflects the great practical importance and relevance of the problem due to the ever-increasing number of these patients in dental practices.

Grantor dc:publisher

Medical University of Varna

Year dc:date

2022

Authors dc:creator

• Chokanov, Simeon
• Чоканов, Симеон

• drugs
• opioids
• drug addicts
• substance-dependent patients
• oral
• somatic pathology
• Зъболечение / Dental Treatment

Repository record dc:identifier

http://repository.mu-varna.bg/handle/nls/2449

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