Developments in diagnostic applications of saliva in oral and systemic diseases- A comprehensive review (original) (raw)

Journal of Scientific and Innovative Research

Human saliva is not just the fluid in our mouth, but it mirrors our body’s health and well being. Biomolecules that are circulating in the blood are also found in human saliva. It consists of approximately about 2,000 proteins, and most significantly, 26% of these proteins are also found in blood, therefore emphasizes the saliva’s importance as an added biological resource for disease diagnosis and monitoring, as well as an ultimate diagnostic medium to establish a person’s response to treatment. The field of saliva diagnostics (SDs) began in the early 60s when salivary calcium levels were found to be elevated in cystic fibrosis patients, and 50 years on now how the field has unmitigated to an unpredicted distance due to the development of increasingly sensitive detection techniques. Hence, today in the era of nanotechnology and genomics, field of salivary diagnostics is promising a dramatic change in disease diagnosis and clinical monitoring. It has expanded into detection of cance...

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