Greetings! I am posting for the first time even though I have visited the forum on and off since I was diagnosed in 2010. I am 44 years old and am HPV negative. I have never smoked and am do not drink alcohol often but I still am an oral cancer survivor. I am now being observed by my local dentist and an oral surgeon for lichen planus. I have a sore and inflamed area on my lower gum tissue that has been there for at least two months. In addition to that, I have multiple spots of white and what the docs are calling "lacy" looking areas on my gums on both the top and bottom of my mouth. They think it is a condition called lichen planus which is debated to be a precondition to oral cancer. They are waiting to biopsy me to see how I progress over the next two weeks. Has anyone developed lichen planus in your mouth and how was it treated? Any thoughts or information would be much appreciated. Thanks in advance.