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Brand-name prescription medicine

Diprolene

Generic name: Betamethasone dipropionate

FDA application holder: Organon

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Quick answers

What is Diprolene?
Diprolene is a brand name of Betamethasone dipropionate, a prescription medicine. The FDA NDC Directory lists 1 Diprolene product in 1 strength and form.
Who makes Diprolene?
Organon holds the FDA application for Diprolene (NDA018741, approved July 27, 1983).
Is there a generic or store brand of Diprolene?
Yes. The FDA NDC Directory lists 12 other products with the same active ingredients, strength and form as a Diprolene product, 10 of them generic. Ask your pharmacist whether one is right for you.
Has Diprolene been recalled?
No recall linked to Diprolene products (by their NDC code or label) appears in the FDA enforcement reports we use.

What Diprolene is

Each Diprolene product as listed in the FDA NDC Directory, by active ingredient, strength and form, with its official label. “Same medicine, other names” counts the other products with exactly the same active ingredients, strength and form (generic versions, store brands and other brands); inactive ingredients can differ.

Betamethasone dipropionate · prescription medicine

Strength and formProduct namesSame medicine, other namesLabel
betamethasone dipropionate 0.05%
ointment (topical)
Diprolene 12 products, 9 companies DailyMed

Its page lists every product and company, the FDA label’s uses and boxed warning, approvals, shortages and recalls: Betamethasone dipropionate →

FDA approval

  • NDA: New Drug Application: how a new (usually brand-name) medicine is approved.
FDA applications of Diprolene products (Drugs@FDA)
ApplicationHolderFirst approvedProducts
NDA018741OrganonJuly 27, 19831

Companies that list Diprolene

The company named on the package (holder, repackager or distributor), as listed in the FDA NDC Directory, with its number of Diprolene products.

Recalls

No recall linked to Diprolene products (by their NDC code or label) appears in the FDA enforcement reports.

Sources

  1. NDC Directory (openFDA) — U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), FDA data exported October 30, 2026, retrieved October 31, 2026
  2. Drugs@FDA (openFDA) — U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), FDA data exported October 30, 2026, retrieved October 31, 2026
  3. Drug labeling (SPL, openFDA) — U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), FDA data exported October 30, 2026, retrieved October 31, 2026
  4. Drug recall enforcement reports (openFDA) — U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), FDA data exported October 27, 2026, retrieved October 31, 2026
  5. NADAC (National Average Drug Acquisition Cost) 2026 — Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), data.medicaid.gov, list of November 4, 2026, retrieved November 7, 2026

Which names get a brand page: a name the NDC Directory lists for a medicine, held by one company (the FDA application holder, or the company named on most of its products), that is not just a description, and that is not the only product of its medicine.

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