Saliva helps wash away cavity-causing bacteria, provides enzymes to help digest food, protects teeth from decay by neutralizing harmful acids and keeps oral tissues healthy. Without saliva, you would lose your teeth much faster.

Saliva is the body's natural oral defense system. It protects teeth and soft tissues, flushes bacteria and food away from the teeth, and reduces enamel abrasion. Its buffering ability helps neutralize acids to restore normal pH levels, and it replenishes the calcium, phosphate and fluoride ions that remineralize the enamel. With a lack of saliva or too many acid-producing bacteria, a mineral imbalance can occur that leads to increased caries risk. See similar questions...

You are not alone. Many people with ALS experience pooling of saliva in their mouths that can make people more likely to drool, choke or cough. It may seem as though your body is producing too much saliva, but it is not. Normally, our bodies produce large quantities of saliva each day to help maintain a healthy mouth and good digestion. For reasons that are not clearly understood, you may not be swallowing your saliva as automatically (without thinking) as you did prior to ALS. See similar questions...

From talking with many customers, I have come to the conclusion that it is very accurate. To the extent that you can even determine how serious your overgrowth is by how fast it develops and how much there is. If it develops almost immediately and there is a lot of stuff, you have it worse than someone who has one or two strings or a little cloudiness develop 20 minutes or so later. See similar questions...

Transmission of HIV requires a live virus or virus containing cell. What Salivax? does is detect antibodies to the virus not the virus itself. See similar questions...

As of 3/27/04 we are introducing the BANA test. This is a different one that Dr. Nara offered, but it is more indicative of periodontal risk. Read about it... I would like to know if you can provide the name of a dentist in my area who does this testing or specializes in 'preventive dentistry.' According to Dr. See similar questions...

We want to test the blood and saliva samples for chemicals like phthalates, hormones, perfluorinated chemicals, metals, pesticides, and possibly other toxins. The importance of having a data bank of these samples is that with emerging technology and advances in science, we may be able to do more tests in the future than we can do now. Having these samples creates the possibility of study in many different areas of breast cancer research. See similar questions...

Reliance on averages or guessing isn't good enough for women serious about achieving (or avoiding) pregnancy. Because your body is unique, you cannot rely on "usual" or "average" predictions. Saliva Ovulation Prediction Microscopes will enable you to learn when you are actually ovulating, and to make wise decisions about your own body. See similar questions...

Daily and at approximately the same time each morning. Usually on arising and before consumption of any food or water. Smoking should also be avoided prior to testing as the chemicals present alter saliva. By using a Saliva Ovulation Prediction Microscope daily for the first few months and keeping a careful record of your test results, you will learn the changing patterns and timing of your unique fertility cycle. See similar questions...

Collection guidelines depend on if you are pre-menopausal or post-menopausal. Pre-menopausal women should collect in the luteal phase (second half) of their cycle (days 19-21, counting day one as the first day of your period in a normal 28-day cycle). Women who are not having menstrual cycles or who have had a hysterectomy and are not taking hormones may collect at any time. See similar questions...

The Twelve, in no particular order, are Magneto, Xavier, Cyclops, Cable, Jean Grey/Phoenix, Mikhail Rasputin, Iceman, Storm, Sunfire, Polaris, Bishop, and the Living Monolith/Living Pharaoh. They were gathered by Apocalpyse in his quest to become a godlike being with more power than the Phoenix force or the Celestials. According to Uncanny X-Men #377 (specifically Apocalpyse): The Monolith is at the core of it all, as the primal earth which is the foundation for all that is to be mine. See similar questions...

What do you mean, "The last person to father a baby in the U.S., may have already been born?!!!" See similar questions...

No. Unlike breath analyzers and other saliva tests, the QED? test is specific to ethyl alcohol and will not cross-react with acetone and ketone produced by diabetic patients. See similar questions...

Saliva testing may be accurate for hormones that circulate in high concentrations, such as progesterone but not all hormones can be accurately assessed using saliva. Since we require extensive blood testing for each consultation, there is no need to collect saliva samples as well. All the hormones we assess are accurately measured using the blood samples. See similar questions...

Saliva is a very difficult medium. It varies from person to person and also in the same person depending upon the state of hydration. It is also contaminated with food particles, tobacco, betelnuts, khat and residues of candy etc. Moreover, the concentration of antibodies in saliva is only about 1/800th that of blood. So the tests have to overcome a great deal of etchnological difficulties to be accurate. See similar questions...

Serum is the specimen of choice for cotinine measurement since it is subject neither to bacterial degradation nor sample concentration. Cotinine can also be measured in saliva in concentrations similar to those in serum; however sample collection is cumbersome as is sample extraction. Most cotinine is excreted by the kidneys into the urine, where it is concentrated about 10X higher than it is circulation. This makes it the specimen of choice for determination of passive exposure. See similar questions...

Biospecimens, like blood and saliva, are windows into the body that help us understand exposure to chemicals. When people are exposed to toxins, depending on how the toxin enters the body, the toxins may get broken down, transported, and excreted or stored. Blood helps us identify chemicals that are being transported in our body, so it allows us to look at current exposures and how the chemicals interact with our body. See similar questions...