Traditional periodontal diagnostic methods are not precisely accurate and only allow retrospective diagnosis of attachment loss. A great deal of current periodontal research has therefore been directed towards improving this situation. This has been both aimed at accuracy of traditional clinical diagnostic methods and developing alternative methods capable of detecting and predicting periodontal disease activity. Now a days, clinical chair side tests are in use for more precise molecular diagnostics and treatments. With the advent of more efficient diagnostic techniques in recent times there is an increased predictability in the diagnosis by the clinician. Development of reliable predictive tests can foresee future periodontal status and thus enable definitive treatments to be given for each specific site before extensive damage has occurred. This review describes some diagnostic test kits in the market that can facilitate the clinical examination and the establishment of a diagnosis. The review has been generated from articles and abstracts researched from Medline, Pubmed and Google scholar indexed journal and the US patent websites describing the inventions in the periodontal diagnostic kits.
