Abstract
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.
Highlights
Among the various mucosal diseases, ulcers are the most common type of mucosal disease
Topical anaesthetics are recommended for recurrent aphthous ulcer
The results showed that, in this study, it was observed that topical anaesthetics was prescribed more frequently for apthous ulcer (49%) among study population and corticosteroids were prescribed least among study population
Summary
Among the various mucosal diseases, ulcers are the most common type of mucosal disease. Recurrent aphthous ulcers represent a very common but poorly understood oral mucosal lesion Corticosteroids are traditional treatment of choice for recurrent aphthous ulcer They are administered as topical gels, mouthwashes and systemically by oral route. It is of interest to report the data on the management of recurrent apthous ulcer using corticosteroids, local anesthetics and nutritional supplements. These data were entered into Excel sheet and was cross verified by 2 clinicians They were obtained using SPSS statistics software and chi-square test was used to determine correlation between gender and recurrent apthous ulcer clinical variants, usage of topical anaesthetics and recurrent apthous ulcer variant, usage of topical corticosteroids and recurrent apthous ulcer variant and usage of nutritional supplements and recurrent apthous ulcer variant. The external validity is established as the data is from a clinical setup that is duplicatable
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