Title

Management of recurrent aphthous ulcer using corticosteroids, local anesthetics and nutritional supplements

Authors

¹Manthra Prathoshini, 2V Jayanth Kumar, 3Visalakshi Ramanathan

Affiliation

1Saveetha Dental College, Saveetha Institute of Medical and Technical Sciences, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India; 2Oral Medicine and Radiology, Saveetha Dental College, Saveetha Institute of Medical and Technical Sciences, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India; 3Saveetha Dental
College, Saveetha Institute of Medical and Technical Sciences, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India

Email

V Jayanth Kumar - Email-Doctorjayanth@gmail.com, Corresponding author*

Article Type

Research Article

Date

Received October 7, 2020; Revised October 27, 2020; Accepted October 27, 2020; Published December 31, 2020

Recurrent Aphthous ulcers are the most common oral lesions among dental patients. The ulcers, which usually occur on the nonkeratinized oral mucosa, can cause considerable pain and may interfere with eating, speaking, and swallowing. Therefore, it is of interest to
report data on the management of recurrent aphthous ulcer using corticosteroids, local anesthetics and nutritional supplements. Case sheets of 76 patients who underwent treatment for recurrent aphthous ulcer between June 2019 and March 2020 at the Saveetha Dental
College, India were used in this analysis. Data was analyzed using Chi square test at a P value < 0.05 that is statistically significant. Results show that topical anaesthetics in population (49%) were more effective that corticosteroids. Thus, topical anaesthetics are recommended for recurrent aphthous ulcer.

Keywords

Aphthous ulcer, corticosteroids, local anesthetics and nutritional supplements

Citation

Prathoshini et al. Bioinformation 16(12): 992-998 (2020)

Edited by

P Kangueane

ISSN

0973-2063

Publisher

Biomedical Informatics

License

This is an Open Access article which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly credited. This is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License.