" how we apply this to young adults , it enables us to know what might be their future caries heritage - the number of cysts that they ' ll get by , say , their earlier 20s or old 30s , " suggests researcher paul wilson . called the prophylaxis assessment and risk evaluation ( care ) tests , the procedure measuring the compared proportions in venom of multiple types of sugar molecules called oligosaccharides . the same sugar chains are present on their substrates .
A test can predict cavities.