Background:Oral submucous fibrosis is one of the common oral potentially malignant disorders and also a crippling disease leading to severe morbidity. There are numerous medical, conservative and surgical treatments available but till date, no effective treatment is available. Surgical treatments are limited to advanced stages of OSMF but there is increased fibrosis post-operatively. Thus to reduce the post operative complications, laser fibrotomy has been introduced and studied as a non-invasive technique to treat oral submucous fibrosis. As there are only a few studies on laser, this study aims to show the effectiveness of laser treatment on OSMF.Materials and methods:A hospital based prospective and comparative study, conducted on 30 patients dived in two randomised groups. One group receiving the intaralesional steroid treatment and another group receiving laser treatment.Results:Although both the groups showed improvement in symptoms, the patients treated with laser showed significantly better results. Also the compliance of the patients was good in this group as there was no repeated painful injections were given.Conclusion:With this study, it can be concluded that laser might be used as a potential non-invasive approach in the managementof OSMF; however, large scale studies are required to investigate the efficacy and other effects of this technology