What it is: A technique for predicting, from the composition of people’s saliva, their susceptibility to tooth decay. The market: The full extent of the market for the testing technique is unknown, ...

The saliva circulating in your mouth contains troves of microbial information about the rest of your body and is easier to collect than blood samples. Today, a few drops of spit can help detect ...

Giving patients a test for diabetes when they are in a dentist’s chair could help find more cases of the disease, academics ...

A simple saliva test can predict for the first time whether children will get cavities, how many cavities they will get and even which teeth are most vulnerable, University of Southern California ...