European Journal of Biomedical and Pharmaceutical Sciences

A REVIEW ON INTRALESIONAL CORTICOSTEROID INJECTION AS AN EFFECTIVE TREATMENT METHOD FOR ORAL LESIONS

Shazia Aslam*, PG Student, Vishal Mehrotra, Prof & HOD, Kriti Garg, Reader, Rahul Srivastava, Prof, Jyoti Kiran, G Student, Praveen Singh, PG Student

ABSTRACT

Many lesions of the oral region are treated with surgical methods such as curettage and resection. Chemotherapy and radiation therapy with or without surgical intervention can be used as an adjunct in some cases. Corticosteroids are one of the most widely used drugs due to their anti-inflammatory, anti-allergic and immunosuppressive effects. Today they are used as systemic, topical, intra-articular and intralesional in the clinic. Intralesional steroid injection is a conservative procedure which is already used in various part of body and oral lesions. It is one of the main methods used for treating a wide range of lesions. It also results in a high concentration of drugs at lesion sites, with minimal systemic absorption. The intralesional corticosteroid injection could be one of the effective therapeutic methods with no significant problems in many oral lesions such as inflammatory, immunologic, and vascular ones due to its higher therapeutic effects than other topical forms of steroids and fewer side effects than systemic corticosteroid.

Keywords: Intralesional corticosteroid injections, oral lesions.