title: Is dentistry going to get into the salivary diagnostics game or watch from the sidelines?
abstract: What is salivary diagnostics and why should you care? Most of us dentists try to avoid or control saliva as it interferes with access, or chemical interactions in dental materials or impression materials, or when it is simply a nuisance. Periodically, we may note reduced flow or encounter a patient with xerostomia. Correspondingly, we then manage the many of today's existing commercialized oral-based tests were yesterday's proposed ideas or concepts, captured in the 1993 New York Academy of Sciences Conference on oral based diagnostics. When coupled with the emerging point-of-care technology, the potential of salivary diagnostics is even more compelling. In this section, I hope to elucidate for the reader the potential of salivary diagnostics for the dental profession and So what is the value proposition? How could this disruptive technology serve the dentist and the patients they treat? What must occur to facilitate the ongoing development and introduction of salivary diagnostics into the marketplace?
authors.affiliation: Delta Dental of Michigan, USA. jjacobson@deltadentalmi.com
authors.forename: Jed J
authors.initials: JJ
authors.lastname: Jacobson
mesh_terms: D015415:Biomarkers / Q000032:analysis*; D003813:Dentistry; D003933:Diagnosis; D004059:Diffusion of Innovation; D042241:Early Diagnosis; D006801:Humans; D011215:Practice Management, Dental; D012463:Saliva / Q000737:chemistry*
chemical_list: D015415:Biomarkers