Salivary diagnostics

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Salivary diagnostics or Salivaomics is a procedure for testing and maintaining the data for diagnostic purposes. Saliva based hand-held sensors are used to detect and measure proteins and nucleic acids that are present in saliva for diagnosis. Salivary diagnostic technology is showing promise in the detection and monitoring malignancies at early stage and other various health concerns. The advantages of salivary diagnostics includes ease of collection, elimination of fear of needles, inexpensive testing and reduce risk of disease transmission between healthcare workers and patients. In addition, salivary diagnostic is fast, highly sensitive and specific, portable, user-friendly and can screen for multiple agents simultaneously contributing in determining the scope of toxin exposure, thereby providing a quicker fight and diagnosis in the event of pandemic, epidemic and bioterrorism.

References

• Abstract #1179, “Salivaomics Knowledge Base (SKB)”, by W. Yan et al., of UCLA, USA, to be presented at 10:45 a.m. on Saturday, April 5, 2008, in Trinity I-Exhibit Hall of the Hilton Anatole Hotel, during the 37th Annual Meeting of the American Association for Dental Research.
• "Salivary diagnostics powered by nanotechnologies, proteomics and genomics", by DT Wong. J Am Dent Assoc, 2006;137:313-321

External links

• Salivaomics
• International Conference on Frontiers of Dental and Craniofacial
• OralDNA Labs, Innovations in Salivary Diagnostics
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