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Your teeth on Meth Meth eats you What do you know about teeth and dentures? Meth is a powerfully addictive drug that eats your body from the inside out. For a meth user, by the time the teeth look like Answer the following questions true or false this, brain cells have been eaten and permanently damaged. As meth flows through the blood to Your blood flows the heart, muscles, bones and teeth, through your teeth. it eats cells When your blood needs deposits toxins and poisons calcium it first will take and destroys healthy tissues. it from the jawbone. A 23 year old males teeth and gums after 3+ years of Meth use. Natural teeth chew What happens after they pull with 150lbs of pressure. Facts about your teeth on Meth the Meth eaten teeth? Gum tissue for dentures Extremely painful teeth & gums can only support 5 to 25lbs of pressure. Bad taste from infection and nasty smell Infected teeth cause an unhealthy body With dentures you Lack of sleep due to painful teeth cannot bite or chew with Feel bad about yourself your front teeth. Unable to eat or chew many solid foods Dentures need to be Jawbone loss replaced every 5 years. Gum disease Dentures only function at Costs big bucks to restore or replace teeth So you think dentures 10% of the efficiency of Rapid decay of teeth your natural teeth. Loss of teeth are the solution? If you have all your teeth When teeth are pulled, the jawbone will pulled then you may instantly start to slowly shrink over the years. look at least 10 years older. Whats left Dentures sit on the bone ridge. from a The disadvantage of getting a denture at a Meth young age, like 23 years old, is by the time user after youre 60 your bone ridge will have shrunk if you answered true to all the above 3 years of beyond the point of wearing a denture you are 100% correct. Meth use. functionally, thus leaving you a denture cripple.