Oral Diseases (2011) 17, 345–354 For the past two decades, salivary diagnostic
approaches have been developed to monitor oral diseases such as periodontal diseases …

For clinical applications such as monitoring health status, disease onset and progression,
and treatment outcome, there are three necessary prerequisites:(i) a simple method for …

Early diagnosis represents the target of contemporary medicine and has an important role in
the prognosis and further treatment. Saliva is a biofluid that generated a high interest among …

Saliva is secreted from the salivary glands and has multiple functions, including mouth
cleaning and protection, antibacterial effects and digestion. With the rapid advancement in …

Cancer is the second most common cause of death in the USA. Its symptoms are often not
specific and absent, until the tumors have already metastasized. Therefore, there is an …

Saliva contains a variety of biomolecules, including DNA, coding and noncoding RNA,
proteins, metabolites and microbiota. The changes in the salivary levels of these molecular …

Saliva testing is a vital method for clinical applications, for its noninvasive features, richness
in substances, and the huge amount. Due to its direct anatomical connection with oral …

Oral cancers annually affect 38,000 people in the USA and hundreds of thousands of others
around the globe. Despite treatment advances, the disease's overall 5-year survival rate has …

Introduction: A biomarker is a biological indicator of normal or pathogenic processes.
Identification of biomarkers is useful for the prevention, diagnosis and prognosis of diseases …

Saliva is a fascinating biological fluid which has all the features of a perfect diagnostic tool.
In fact, its collection is rapid, simple, and noninvasive. Thanks to several transport …