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Dental management of the cocaine addict
A H Friedlander1, D A Gorelick
1Dental Service, Brentwood Division, West Los Angeles Veterans Administration Medical Center, Calif.
Oral Surgery, Oral Medicine, and Oral Pathology
|January 1, 1988
Abstract:
Addiction to cocaine is a growing problem in the United States. The detrimental physiologic aspects of addiction require that certain precautions be observed during dental care to avoid a morbid reaction or a possible fatality. The adverse psychological and social aspects of addiction must also be understood by the dentist in order to properly manage this troubled group of patients.