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ReviewISRN dentistry2014

Salivary diagnostics: a brief review.

Narasimhan Malathi, Sabesan Mythili, Hannah R Vasanthi

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Review in ISRN dentistry, 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 60 papers, 3 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

60 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

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  5. Potential of Saliva in Stroke Patients: A Review.International journal of molecular sciences · 2026
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  11. Evaluation of Salivary GAPDH as a Predictor Biomarker for Periodontitis.International journal of molecular sciences · 2025
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  12. Salivary biomarkers: a promising approach for predicting immunotherapy response in head and neck cancers.Clinical & translational oncology : official publication of the Federation of Spanish Oncology Societies and of the National Cancer Institute of Mexico · 2025
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Narasimhan MalathiDepartment of Oral Pathology & Microbiology, Faculty of Dental Sciences, Sri Ramachandra University, No. 1, Ramachandra Nagar, Porur, Chennai, Tamil Nadu 600116, India.
Sabesan MythiliDepartment of Oral Pathology & Microbiology, Faculty of Dental Sciences, Sri Ramachandra University, No. 1, Ramachandra Nagar, Porur, Chennai, Tamil Nadu 600116, India.
Hannah R VasanthiDepartment of Biotechnology, Pondicherry University, Puducherry 605014, India.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Early detection of disease plays a crucial role for treatment planning and prognosis. Saliva has great potential as a diagnostic fluid and offers advantage over serum and other biological fluids by an economic and noninvasive collection method for monitoring of systemic health and disease progression. The plethora of components in this fluid can act as biomarkers for diagnosis of various systemic and local diseases. In this review paper, we have emphasized the role of salivary biomarkers as diagnostic tools.

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PMID24616813
PMCPMC3926256

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