Prevalence of Oral Lichen Planus in Diabetes Mellitus: a Meta-Analysis Study

BACKGROUND: Oral lichen planus (OLP) is associated with various other systemic conditions such as hypertension, diabetes mellitus (DM). This study evaluated the prevalence of OLP in DM patients compared with non-diabetic control subjects in a meta-analysis study. METHODS: statistic. Also, publication bias was assessed through funnel plot analysis with the Kendall's and Egger's tests. RESULTS: = 0%) that the result showed the prevalence of OLP in DM patients is significantly more than control subjects. CONCLUSIONS: This meta-analysis study showed an association between OLP with DM, whereas this association was no significant in previous studies, it was probably because different selecting of age, sex, type of DM, medications and criteria. Totally, the meta-analysis showed the risk of OLP in DM was higher compared with control subjects.