A 32-year-old member asked:
Is a saliva drug test more accurate than urine samples?
2 doctor answers • 3 doctors weighed in
Dr. Charles Kattuahanswered
Dentistry 25 years experience
Depends: There is growing research and developments in using saliva to test for a multitude of conditions and diseases going on right now. There are saliva tests for diabetes, oral cancer, hiv, caries susceptibility (cavity risk), and more. But urine is still valuable for diagnostic testing and i don't think it is going away.
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Dr. Gary Alderanswered
Dentistry 49 years experience
Depends: It depends on what you are testing. Saliva is thought to be the new frontier of bioanalysis and with evaluation techniques improving this should become a valuable diagnostic modality in the future.
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