1Professor, Department of Periodontics, Rungta College of Dental Sciences and Research, Bhilai, Chattisgarh
2Senior Lecturer, Department of Oral Pathology, Vishnu Dental College and Hospital, Bhimavaram, India
3Senior Lecturer, Department of Oral Pathology, Aditya Dental College, Beed, Maharashtra, India
4Senior Lecturer, Department of Oral Pathology, Krishnadevaraya College of Dental sciences, Bangalore
5Senior Lecturer, Department of Oral Pathology, Dr. Harvansh Singh Judge Institute of Dental Sciences, Panjab University, Chandigarh
6PG StudentDepartment of Periodontology and Oral Implantology, Dasmesh Institute of Research and Dental Sciences, Faridkot, Punjab
Online published on 18 April, 2014.
Saliva is a major determinant of the oral environment and serves as an easily available diagnostic tool of systemic conditions. Saliva is a clinically informative, biologic fluid that contains multiple biomarkers which makes salivary diagnostics a dynamic field that is being incorporated as part of disease diagnosis and clinical monitoring, and for making important clinical decisions for patient care. The purpose of this review article is to give an overview of the basic physiology of saliva and to examine the diagnostic application of saliva for systemic and oral diseases.
Saliva, Biomarkers, Diagnostic Tool, Systemic Diseases
