A Deeper Understanding of Your Oral and General Health
Your oral health can provide valuable information about your wider health.
At The Dentist Gallery, we offer saliva and blood testing to help us look beyond a conventional dental examination. These tests may help identify harmful oral bacteria, genetic risk factors, inflammation, blood-sugar concerns, nutritional deficiencies and factors that could affect healing.
The results allow us to create a more personalised approach to treatment, prevention and long-term care.
Saliva testing provides valuable information about your oral microbiome and can help us understand why some patients are more prone to gum disease, recurrent tooth decay, or both.
The test may help identify:
The results are reviewed alongside your dental examination, medical history, diet, lifestyle and oral-hygiene habits.
Rather than looking at gum disease or tooth decay in isolation, saliva testing helps us investigate the biological environment in your mouth and personalise your treatment and prevention plan.
For patients with gum disease, this may include a comprehensive periodontal examination, Guided Biofilm Therapy, periodontal treatment where required, personalised oral-hygiene advice, probiotics where appropriate, and follow-up testing to assess how the oral microbiome responds.
For patients with recurrent tooth decay, we also look at factors such as diet, saliva quality, oral acidity, dry mouth, fluoride exposure and bacterial balance. Your programme may include dietary advice, fluoride recommendations, dry-mouth management and a personalised prevention plan.
The aim is not simply to treat the current problem, but to better understand why it is happening and reduce the risk of it returning.
Saliva Testing
To help you understand more about our saliva-testing technology, we've put together a short guide explaining what ORALIS tests for and how it's used as part of your care.
Blood Testing
Blood testing can provide additional information about factors that may influence your oral health, healing and response to treatment.
It may be particularly useful for patients who:
Dr Jerome Sebah has developed a dedicated pre-implant assessment package designed to help optimise your health before implant surgery.
Blood testing can identify factors that may affect bone healing, osseointegration and recovery. Tests such as HbA1c, Vitamin D, a Full Blood Count, and selected inflammatory and nutritional markers can provide valuable information about blood-sugar control, anaemia, infection risk, inflammation and bone metabolism.
While these results cannot predict implant success on their own, they can help us plan your treatment more safely, identify potential risk factors early, and determine whether any medical follow-up or optimisation may be beneficial before surgery.
These tests may provide useful information about inflammation, anaemia, blood-sugar control, nutritional status, thyroid function, bone health and factors that could influence healing.
Pricing
Saliva and blood tests do not provide a diagnosis on their own.
Results must be interpreted alongside your dental examination, symptoms, medical history and other relevant investigations.
Blood testing at The Dentist Gallery supports dental treatment planning and preventive care. It does not replace medical assessment by your GP or a specialist.
Where a result requires further investigation, we will advise you to contact an appropriate healthcare professional.
A deeper understanding of your oral and
general health
