Evaluation of Lycopene in the Treatment of Erosive Oral Lichen Planus

Patients were given 10 mg of lycopene softgel capsules once daily for two months. The active ingredient in each capsule consists of 10 mg lycopene from natural tomato extract.

Patients were given 40 mg of prednisolone tablets once daily in the morning for one month, afterwards, the dose was tapered along the following month. Incremental reduction of 10 mg each week for the first three weeks, followed by 5 mg reduction in the last week, was the tapering protocol in this study. The active ingredient in each tablet consists of Prednisolone metasulfobenzoate sodium 31.44 mg (equivalent to 20 mg of Prednisolone).