%0 Journal Article %T Recent Advances In Salivary Diagnostics %A Divya Uppala %A Sumit Majumdar %J Oral & Maxillofacial Pathology Journal %D 2012 %I Kairali Society of Oral & Maxillofacial Pathologists %X Saliva has been the most efficient diagnostic tool since ages, its progress frombeing a lie detector in the times of the ancient Greeks to the present evolution into amaster tool in the much talked about metabonomics. This review article attempts toshow the way how saliva has reached its potential to serve the status of a potentialdiagnostic aid. This article also focuses on the developments made in the past and alsothe futuristic plans in the field of salivary diagnostics. %K saliva %K diagnostic aids %K desquamated epithelium %U http://a4add.com/remoteupload/uploads/2040/share/13412967093748_myfile.pdf