title: Salivary diagnostics: a brief review.
abstract: Early detection of disease plays a crucial role for treatment planning and prognosis. Saliva has great potential as a diagnostic fluid and offers advantage over serum and other biological fluids by an economic and noninvasive collection method for monitoring of systemic health and disease progression. The plethora of components in this fluid can act as biomarkers for diagnosis of various systemic and local diseases. In this review paper, we have emphasized the role of salivary biomarkers as diagnostic tools.
authors.affiliation: Department of Oral Pathology & Microbiology, Faculty of Dental Sciences, Sri Ramachandra University, No. 1, Ramachandra Nagar, Porur, Chennai, Tamil Nadu 600116, India.
authors.forename: Narasimhan
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Malathi
authors.affiliation: Department of Oral Pathology & Microbiology, Faculty of Dental Sciences, Sri Ramachandra University, No. 1, Ramachandra Nagar, Porur, Chennai, Tamil Nadu 600116, India.
authors.forename: Sabesan
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Mythili
authors.affiliation: Department of Biotechnology, Pondicherry University, Puducherry 605014, India.
authors.forename: Hannah R
authors.initials: HR
authors.lastname: Vasanthi