" when we administer this to healthy children , it allows researchers to predict what might be their upcoming caries life - the number of sinuses that they ' ll gets by , oh , their late 20s or early 30s , " says participant paul denny . called the caries evaluation and impact recognition ( care ) test , the test measures the perceived differences in saliva of specific types of glucose chains , oligosaccharides . the same number chains are present on both surfaces .
A test can predict cavities.