TY - JOUR
T1 - Oral diagnostics for the geriatric populations
T2 - Current status and future prospects
AU - Slaughter, Yolanda Ann
AU - Malamud, Daniel
N1 - Funding Information:
This work was supported by Grant No. UO1-DE014964 from the National Institutes of Health.
PY - 2005/4
Y1 - 2005/4
N2 - Because it is a noninvasive technique, there is growing interest in replacing blood with oral-based methods of diagnostics. Oral diagnostics may be used for diagnosis and therapeutic drug monitoring of both oral diseases (eg, caries, periodontal disease, oral lesions, oral cancer) and systemic diseases (eg, infectious diseases, including HIV and AIDS, autoimmune diseases, cancer, and endocrine disorders). The authors address both existing techniques and oral-based diagnostics that will be applicable to the aging population in the future. They also highlight those techniques that are uniquely suited to point-of-care applications.
AB - Because it is a noninvasive technique, there is growing interest in replacing blood with oral-based methods of diagnostics. Oral diagnostics may be used for diagnosis and therapeutic drug monitoring of both oral diseases (eg, caries, periodontal disease, oral lesions, oral cancer) and systemic diseases (eg, infectious diseases, including HIV and AIDS, autoimmune diseases, cancer, and endocrine disorders). The authors address both existing techniques and oral-based diagnostics that will be applicable to the aging population in the future. They also highlight those techniques that are uniquely suited to point-of-care applications.
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U2 - 10.1016/j.cden.2004.10.007
DO - 10.1016/j.cden.2004.10.007
M3 - Review article
C2 - 15755415
AN - SCOPUS:14744287680
SN - 0011-8532
VL - 49
SP - 445
EP - 461
JO - Dental clinics of North America
JF - Dental clinics of North America
IS - 2
ER -