Syed Murad Ali Shah, Jawad Ahmad Kundi, Muhammad Shahid Khan Khattak, Muhammad Ilyas, Faryal Gul, Salman Khan.
Association of oral lichen planus with hepatitis-c and diabetes mellitus.
Pak Oral Dental J Jan ;36(1):35-7.

The aim of the study is to determine the association of oral lichen planus with hepatitis C and diabetes mellitus. A retrospective cohort study was carried out at the Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, Sardar Begum Dental College, Peshawar from January 2011 to July 2015. A total of 34 male and female patients having oral lichen planus were selected with age range 20-60 years and mean age 39.4±15.8 years. Only clinical features were included to diagnose oral lichen planus which was made through the clinical evaluation of patient’s oral cavity by a specialist team at the Department as proposed by van der Meij et al in 2003 based on the WHO definition of oral lichen planus. The data were analyzed through SPSS 22 with significance level of p-value ≤0.05 and chi-square statistics were applied for association. The results showed that the data was statistically not significant with p-value >0.05 for all diseases having lichen planus and chi-square statistics revealed that no association exist among lichen planus, diabetes mellitus and hepatitis C. This study fails to find any association between oral lichen planus, hepatitis C and diabetes mellitus.

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