Cancer remains one of the leading causes of death, and early detection of this disease is
crucial for increasing survival rates. Although cancer can be diagnosed following tissue …

The pursuit of timely, cost-effective, accurate, and noninvasive diagnostic methodologies is
an endeavor of urgency among clinicians and scientists alike. Detecting pathologies at their …

The objective of this article was to provide an account of some of the developments related
to saliva over the first 100 years of the Journal of Dental Research and to outline some of the …

Buccal swabs and saliva are the two most common oral sampling methods used for medical
research. Often, these samples are used interchangeably, despite previous evidence that …

Early detection is crucial for the treatment and prognosis of oral cancer, a potentially lethal
condition. Tumor markers are abnormal biological byproducts produced by malignant cells …

Head and neck cancer (HNC) remains to be a major cause of mortality worldwide because
of confounding factors such as late-stage tumor diagnosis, loco-regional aggressiveness …

Research into biomarkers of periodontitis is driven by mainly three targets: to identify 'at
risk'patients before periodontal tissue destruction occurs; to determine disease activity and …

Biosensors are being developed to provide rapid, quantitative, diagnostic information to
clinicians in order to help guide patient treatment, without the need for centralised laboratory …

Sensitive early detection, along with effective treatments and solid postoperative monitoring
remain the grand challenges in fighting against human diseases, especially cancer.(1) In …

The role of mucoadhesion in the perception and sensory characterisation of food products is
becoming more apparent. Traditionally, mucoadhesives are used to enhance drug …