Indian Journal of Public Health Research & Development
  • Year: 2019
  • Volume: 10
  • Issue: 8

Reliability of Saliva as a Diagnostic Fluid

  • Author:
  • R Sankar Narayanan1, Shruthi Parthasarathy2, Bhuminathan Swamikannu3, SR Jayesh3
  • Total Page Count: 4
  • Page Number: 1673 to 1676

1Senior Lecturer, Department of Oral Medicine and Radiology, SreeBalaji Dental College and Hospital, BIHER, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India

2Post Graduate, Department of Oral Medicine and Radiology, SreeBalaji Dental College and Hospital, BIHER, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India

3Professor, Department of Prosthodontics, SreeBalaji Dental College and Hospital, BIHER, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India

Online published on 26 September, 2019.

Abstract

Saliva can be used as a diagnostic tool for the detection of various systemic and oral diseases. There has been a long standing debate that saliva based diagnostics can be employed in our day to day practice. The reliability of saliva is equal to that of serum. Patients have a psychological fear for any blood based examinations. Saliva overcomes such fear as it is collected noninvasively with accurate results. This article focuses why not saliva be an alternative fluid to blood??

Keywords

Saliva, Serum, Diagnostics