TO INVESTIGATE THE VITAMIN D SUPPLEMENTARY AS AN ADJECTIVE METHOD TO CURE LICHEN PLANUS IN PERI-MENOPAUSAL FEMALES; A CROSS SECTIONAL STUDY

Objective: The aim of our study was to investigate the vitamin D supplementary to cure lichen planus in peri-menopausal females as an adjective method.

Study Design: A cross sectional study.

Place and Duration: This study was conducted at the department of Medicine and Diagnosis, Allied Hospital Faisalabad for the duration of eight months starting from January, 2020 to September,2020.

Methodology: In our present study 100 patients age range from 35-45 years were included. We distribute patients in two groups with use of flip coin method, these group categorized as receiving conventional therapy and vitamin D supplementary with conventional therapy altogether.  Significance level were considered as less than 0.05. SPSS v. 20 was used for the analysis of data.

Result: In our study 100 patients were included. In these patients 50 were having vitamin D deficiency and 50 were having vitamin D insufficiency and 40.04±41.2 years. For standard therapy we recorded pain scores amongst week 1 and week 4 with pain intensity score was 1.80±0.40 and 5.04±2.20 (p-value=0.001). patients of group 2 show improvement in clinical appearance of lesion between week 1 and week 2.

Conclusion: At the end of our study, we concluded that in peri menopausal females the most common thing is vitamin D deficiency which is associated with oral lichen planus.

Key Words: Oral Lichen, Visual Analogue Scale, Vitamin D deficiency, Vitamin D insufficiency