Findings

What do systematic reviews say?

2 questions · 2 findings · 1 reviews · All outcomes

No studies found 0 · 0%GRADE not reported 2 · 100%Very low 0 · 0%Low 0 · 0%Moderate 0 · 0%High 0 · 0%

Pain (mean score) · People with symptomatic, biopsy-confirmed oral lichen planus (OLP); not concurrently receiving other OLP treatment

1 finding from 1 review

Interventions for treating oral lichen planus: corticosteroid therapies 2020 · Cochrane All outcomes
Amirchaghmaghi 2016: no benefit of adjunctive curcumin for pain (low to very low certainty collectively)
1 study
GRADE not reported

Pain (mean score) · People with symptomatic, biopsy-confirmed oral lichen planus (OLP); not concurrently receiving other OLP treatment

Dexamethasone ointment showed no clear difference in pain (mean score) compared with amlexanox paste; GRADE not reported.

1 finding from 1 review

Interventions for treating oral lichen planus: corticosteroid therapies 2020 · Cochrane All outcomes
MD 0.05 [-0.78, 0.88]
1 study · 36 participants
GRADE not reported