I think Jerry has hit this at the right angle. The device is very new and the company is small and just starting to get out into the marketplace. MOST IMPORTANTLY, this is an adjunctive device - and while it aguments a good examination, potentially finding something that might get missed, it is not going to be a substitute for that non complacent dentist, who does a thorough, and knowledgeable visual and wet finger tactile examination. This device is not going to change to world. Involved dentists and hygienists will, with or without the device.

In the next couple of years, salivary diagnostics is poised to deal with the MASS screening of the population, done without a doctor, which will screen out the "at risk" population, who will THEN be on routine recalls to a real doctor/dentist who will be carefully looking (perhaps with a device) for the first manifestations of disease, as hopefully a pre cancer. People will then be caught at stages when survival is greatest and morbidity associated with treatments is the lowest.


Brian, stage 4 oral cancer survivor. OCF Founder and Director. The first responsibility of a leader is to define reality. The last is to say thank you. In between, the leader is a servant.