Diode Laser Versus Topical Corticosteroids in Management of Oral Ulcers in Behcet's Disease

• Status: Unknown status
• Trial end date: 2019-05-25
• Target enrollment: 0
• Participant gender: All

Summary

Laser therapy is increasingly showing promising results in dental field including oral ulcers.This trial will assess the usefulness of Diode Laser compared to corticosteroid on oral ulcers of patients diagnosed with Behcet's disease.

• Phase: N/A
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers?: No

Details

• Lead Sponsor: Cairo University
• Treatments: Triamcinolone; Triamcinolone Acetonide; Triamcinolone diacetate; Triamcinolone hexacetonide

Criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

• patients diagnosed with Behcet's Disease according to International Criteria for BD.

• patients with active oral ulcers.

• patients free from any visible oral lesions other than the oral ulcers of BD.

• patients who agreed to take the supplied interventions.

• patients who will agree to participate in the study.

• patients who will accept to sign the informed consent.

Exclusion Criteria:

• patients not physically able to participate in survey or clinical oral examination.

• patients with organ or life-threatening disease.

• patients with history of a severe or chronic medical condition including tuberculosis, hepatitis and human immunodeficiency virus.

• patients under immunosuppressive drugs.

• patients with organ transplantation.