Salivaomics - A promising future in early diagnosis of dental diseases

Abstract

Human saliva plays an important role in the health of the oral cavity and of the body as a whole.

Salivary diagnostics is a dynamic and emerging

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Biomarker, microbiome, proteome, saliva, transcriptome 

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offering substantial advantages because disease states may be accompanied by detectable changes.

Salivaomics, the future of saliva-based techniques for early diagnosis of dental diseases, is promising

and may offer a robust alternative for clinicians to use in the near future to make clinical decisions.

cient for determining sites of active disease, for monitoring the response

to therapy, or for measuring the degree of susceptibility to future disease progression. Salivaomics

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ects the physiologic state of the body, including emotional, endocrinal, nutritional, and

metabolic variations. The collection of saliva samples is noninvasive, safe, and inexpensive. Traditional

clinical criteria are insuf

eld in the diagnosis of oral and systemic diseases.Saliva re