Salivary diagnostics: a brief review.

ISRN Dent

Department of Biotechnology, Pondicherry University, Puducherry 605014, India.

Published: June 2014

Early detection of disease plays a crucial role for treatment planning and prognosis. Saliva has great potential as a diagnostic fluid and offers advantage over serum and other biological fluids by an economic and noninvasive collection method for monitoring of systemic health and disease progression. The plethora of components in this fluid can act as biomarkers for diagnosis of various systemic and local diseases. In this review paper, we have emphasized the role of salivary biomarkers as diagnostic tools.

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http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3926256PMC
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2014/158786DOI Listing

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