Management of Pain in Oral Lichen Planus

0.1 % topical triamcinolone acetonide preparation was used where the patients' were instructed to apply the gel 4 times daily, with no food or fluid taken one hour after application.

"Oral Lichen Planus lesions were irradiated with a 970-nm diode laser with a 2 W irradiation power in a continuous non-contact mode. The laser beam was delivered using a fiber-optic tip with a 320 µm diameter with defocused mode directed at the lesions plus 0.5 cm peri- lesional tissues with a slight overlapping in order to evenly distribute energy covering all the lesional and peri-lesional tissues until blanching of the area was observed.14 Diode laser was calibrated to an output power of 3W, frequency of 30 Hz, energy of 180 joule and time interval of 8 minutes divided into 4 sessions , two min each with one minute rest in between to allow for tissue relaxation.~Irradiation was done twice weekly (once every third day) for two months until the resolution of signs for a maximum of ten sessions."