1Professor and HOD, Department of Oral Medicine & Radiology, Government Dental College, Srinagar-190010, Jammu and Kashmir, India
2PG Scholar, Department of Oral Medicine & Radiology, Government Dental College, Srinagar-190010, Jammu and Kashmir, India
*Address for correspondence: Inderpreet Singh Oberoi Email Id: ipsoberoi2@gmail.com
Online published on 4 January, 2018.
To determine the prevalence of oral lichen planus (OLP) in population of patients with diabetes mellitus compared with a control population.
A total of 196 patients over the age of 35 years, who were diagnosed as insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus and identical number of age, gender and race – matched controls, were examined for clinical evidence of OLP. Patients with diabetes mellitus of any other type were excluded from control group.
Nine diabetic patients (4.6%) and six control patients (3.1%) had clinical evidence of OLP. There was no overall difference between the diabetic and non-diabetic patients with lichen planus (P = 0.430) and no statistically significant difference in terms of gender, race and age.
There was no apparent association of diabetes and OLP in this populatio
Bullous, Diabetes mellitus, Erosive, Oral lichen planus, Plaque, Popular, Reticular
