Crack Cocaine and Dental Health: Separating Fact from Fiction

Crack cocaine (also known simply as “crack”) is a potent and addictive form of cocaine. There is a popular idea that using cocaine has significant physical effects on a person’s teeth—namely causing them to fall out—hence earning people who use the drug the epithet “crackhead.” However, research suggests that the stereotype associated with crack users having severely decayed teeth—often referred to as “crack teeth” or “meth mouth”—has been exaggerated.