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The usefulness of non-invasiveness diagnostic will be an ideal approach to detecting diseases at an early stage. This makes saliva an appropriate diagnostics tool. Recent developments such as point-of-care systems, next-generation sequencing, or liquid biopsy made saliva a powerful tool that detects clinical samples more accurately and can be feasibly used to distinguish health and disease status.

Please pay attention to the subsection “Five salivary diagnostic toolboxes “omics” “. Please summarize your thoughts about the use of these tools such as the pros and cons of each technique and post them in the comment section and see if anyone matches the same.

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