A View on Polymerase Chain Reaction as an Outstanding Molecular Diagnostic Technique in Periodontology

Table 2

Various applications of the PCR technique (including dentistry applications) [40, 47, 48].

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Various applications of the PCR technique

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Diagnosis therapy (cancer, diabetes, metabolic, obesity, congenital diseases, neurological disorders, cardiac, etc.)

The ability to amplify RNA

Nucleic acid detection assays

Mycology-parasitology

Clinical bacteriology and virology

Organ transplantation

Agricultural sciences

Studying and understanding the disease state

Dentistry (periodontal diseases, dental caries, oral cancer, and endodontic infections)

Genetic and genomic studies

Insert analysis

Molecular systematic evolution

Tissue typing

Biomarker

Phytopathology

PCR fingerprinting

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