“…With its characteristics of late diagnosis, high mortality rates, and morbidity, oral cancer, among the more prevalent cancers worldwide, represents a global public health problem. Based on the presumption that early diagnosis and timely therapy can prolong patient survival, our team has worked for years on the development of biomarkers for early diagnosis and prognostic assessment of oral cancer patients [ 37 , 55 , 57 , 58 , 59 , 60 ]. Accumulating evidence from different groups suggests that salivary levels of MMPs, including MMP-1, MMP-2, MMP-3, MMP-7, MMP-8, MMP-9, MMP-10, MMP-12, and MMP-13, have potential as diagnostic markers of OSCC [ 52 , 61 , 62 , 63 , 64 , 65 , 66 , 67 , 68 ].…”