DENTAL CARIES IS ONE OF THE MOST COMMON INFECTIOUS DISEASES AFFECTING ORAL CAVITY SINCE HUMAN BEING HAS EVOLUTED.FROM ANCIENT AGES TILL DATE THERE HAS BEEN VARIOUS WAYS OF QUANTIFYING DENTAL CARIES.THE PRESENT BOOK ATTEMPTS TO UNVEIL AN UNIQUE NONINVASIVE GENETIC MARKER FOR DENTAL CARIES i.e DERMATOGLYPHICS AND ITS CORRELATION TO DENTAL CARIES AND ALSO DECIPHERES INTER DEPENDENY OF SAME ON SALIVA .THIS BOOK GIVES AN INSIGHT TO A NEW EPOCH IN CARIES RESEARCH AND PRESENTS A MUCH AWAITED ORIGINAL RESEARCH WORK WHICH MAY NOT ONLY HELP IN PREDICTING CARIES SUSCEPTIBILITY BUT ALSO HELPS IN MAINATING PEDIGREE RECORDS FOR DENTAL CARIES.THAT DAY IS NOT FAR WHEN BY SIMPLY TAKING DERMATOGLYPHIC PATTERN OF AN INDIVIDUAL DENTAL CARIES STATUS CAN BE DETERMINED AND LIKE WISE PREVENTIVE MEASURES FOR THAT PARTICULAR INDIVIDUAL COULD BE INITIATED DEPENDING ON HIS LEVEL OF CARIES SUSCEPTIBILITY AS IT IS DONE FOR SLEEP DISORDERS AT STANFOR SLEEP CENTER ,AMERICA