Department of Public Health Dentistry, Sardar Patel Post Graduate Institute of Dental & Medical Sciences, Lucknow
*Corresponding author: Dr. Piyali Poddar, Resident-Department of Public Health Dentistry, Sardar Patel Post Graduate Institute of Dental & Medical Sciences, Lucknow. E-mail: piyali167@gmail.com, Ph no.- 8175063366
Online published on 15 July, 2015.
The use of saliva to identify individuals with disease and to follow the progress of the affected individual has attracted the attention of numerous investigators. Its noninvasive method of collection, simplicity, and cost effectiveness make it a useful tool not only to the general practitioner but also to the dentist. In this review the use of saliva in diagnosis of some of the systemic and dental diseases has been discussed.
Saliva, diagnostic tool, biomarkers, systemic disease, dental disease
