Recruitment and eligibility criteria
OLP
PATHOLOGY, ATROPHIC
Patients were recruited from the out-patient clinic, the Department of Oral Medicine, Oral Diagnosis and Periodontology, Faculty of Dentistry, Ain Shams University, and Faculty of Oral and Dental Medicine, Future University.Both genders between the ages of 25 and 60 years old, systemically free based on a structured medical questionnaire, and with clinically and histologically confirmed painful erosive or atrophic OLP according to the American Academy of oral and maxillofacial pathology [