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Oral lichen Planus: What home remedies or medications help you?
Autoimmune Diseases | Last Active: Mar 16 5:59pm | Replies (297)Comment receiving replies
I belong to a LS support group on line and I don’t believe LS has been recognized as an autoimmune disease yet. We all who are inflected with this disease truly wish our disease would meet the criteria to be recognized and supported under our medical plans for treatment. It is not covered here in Canada. I paid over $2000 out of pocket for 3 treatments at Nova Womens Clinic and may have to have more treatments. Other countries like USA also are not covered under any medical plan. If you check the LS database, you will find a very large group of patients everywhere who are suffering from LS and with no coverage.
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@lindajoan OLP has definitely been identified as an auto-immune disease. It is covered in any good insurance plan in the USA.
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@lindajoan I don’t know which Province you live in (I am guessing Nova Scotia …?) but in case you are living in Ontario, any treatment by any specialist for lichen planus and lichen sclerosis is covered by OHIP (Ontario Health Insurance Plan), and all oral lichen planus treatments by oral pathologists in hospital clinics are also covered. Some steroid treatments in a dermatologist’s office (e.g., Kenelog injection) were not covered, but all steroid treatments in the Dentistry and Dermatology Clinics at the hospital were covered.