Table 3.

Comparison of published detection rates using saliva in OSCC.

Study	Saliva Component	Mutation method	Detection % in saliva	Ref
This Study	Whole DNA	12 gene Panelseq	82
Wang et al.	Whole DNA	ddPCR	100	[10]
Cui et al.	cfDNA only	71 gene Panelseq	91	[7]
Shanmugam et al.	Cellular DNA only	7 gene-Panelseq	93	[31]