Know what's really happening in your mouth.
The at-home Balance Test reads the bacteria in your saliva — the balance behind cavities, gum disease, fresh breath, and links to your wider health. See what's driving yours, treat the cause, and bring a clear report to your dentist.
You can treat what you see. Or you can know what's causing it.
A family of saliva tests that show your team the bacteria behind the disease — so you treat the cause, explain it clearly, and keep more patients healthy.
How it works
The OraPath Process
Test what's actually there. Target what's driving disease. Rebuild the protective balance. Verify it held — then keep it steady.
Sixteen bacteria, two teams.
Every bacterium the test looks for is doing one of two things — helping keep your mouth stable, or pushing it out of balance.
Higher is betterThe helpers
Friendly bacteria that keep your mouth steady and crowd out the troublemakers — including a special group that supports your whole body's health.
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Lower is betterThe troublemakers
The bacteria behind gum disease and cavities — plus a common yeast that can overgrow when the balance tips. Some are worse together than alone, which is why patterns matter.
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One main score, four that explain it.
Your report turns it all into a few simple numbers. One headline score tells you where you stand overall; four more show you why.
Your Balance Score
A single number from 0 to 100 for how healthy your oral balance is overall — the higher, the better. It blends everything below into one easy readout you can watch change over time as you take care of your mouth.
Protective Score
Higher is betterHow strong your helpful bacteria are at keeping your mouth stable and bouncing back.
Disruptive Score
Lower is betterHow much pressure the troublemaker bacteria are putting on your mouth — and which one is the biggest.
Nitric Oxide Score
Higher is betterA special group of helpful bacteria that support healthy blood flow for your whole body — not just your mouth.
Gum Disease Risk
1–5A simple 1-to-5 rating of your gum-disease risk, based on which bacteria show up together.
Two full panels, two quick starts — one way of reading them.
Two full panels — Comprehensive and the Balance Test — anchor the menu, each with a quick-start option scoped to a tighter question. Start where your practice is; go deeper as the clinical question grows.
See how the data reads at the chair.
Paired before-and-after salivary panels from real periodontal therapy — the microbial picture at baseline, the targeted intervention, and what the follow-up panel confirmed.
A full-mouth pathogen burden eliminated through targeted SRP and adjunctive therapy.
Pg+Td synergistic pattern with the highest microbial pressure score in this series.
Four organisms eliminated in a medically complex patient — full resolution at 140 days.
Become a provider.
Free kits, chairside collection in two minutes, and results in two business days from our own CLIA/COLA lab. Start with a handful of patients — you pay only on submission.
Detecting the bacteria is the easy part. Reading it isn't.
Most molecular oral tests just report individual pathogen detection and levels — data that's hard to interpret without years of experience. We worked that way too, at first. Then clinicians told us the truth: a report you can't translate into a clinical decision and a patient conversation isn't much help at the chair.
So we built OraPath around the hard part — the interpretation built into the report, the next clinical step surfaced for you, the words to explain it to the patient, and a real lab on the other end of the line.
One sample. A clear picture of what's happening in your mouth.
The Balance Test is available directly to you. Same lab, same methodology, same report your dentist would order — collected at home, delivered to your OraPath account.
The Balance Test, at home.
One simple saliva sample reveals the bacteria driving cavities and gum disease — with a clear picture you can act on and track over time.
What makes it different
- Clinical-grade, not consumer-gradeThe same validated qPCR test practices order — run in our own CLIA lab.
- Built to share with your providerBring your results to any dentist or physician to guide care.
- Track what changesRetest over time and watch the trajectory, not just a snapshot.
A clinical team, not just a lab.
OraPath was built with practicing clinicians and scientists — the people who keep the test, the reading, and the science accountable to one another.
Drs. Sara Spurlock and Jennifer Jenkins
Success story →Clinical Partners, Dental Design Studio
From a clinical partner
“We figured out what salivary diagnostics could really do for our patients in real time, chairside. OraPath built the panels around that.”— Dental Design Studio, Norman OK
What clinical teams say
From the hygienists and dentists using it.
“Thanks to OraPath, we're no longer just treating symptoms. We're addressing the root causes of periodontal disease and transforming our patients' oral and systemic health.”
“Instead of guessing, we now have real answers—and that's powerful. We're able to identify the root cause of infection, which is incredibly fulfilling in a profession built around helping people.”
“Our patients can actually see the 'why' behind their condition and track their progress through follow-up testing, which has significantly improved compliance and outcomes.”
There's a clinical side to all of this.
OraPath is built with practicing clinicians. Visit the providers page to learn more about bringing OraPath into your practice and becoming a provider.
Everything behind the report.
The full methodology, sample reports, and the cases that show how the data reads in practice.