Patients with dental calculus have increased saliva and gingival crevicular fluid fetuin-A levels but no association with fetuin-A polymorphisms

ABSTRACT: Fetuin-A is a potent inhibitor of calcium-phosphate precipitation and of the calcification process, therefore it can also be related with dental calculus. Thus, we aimed to investigate a possible relationship between fetuin-A gene polymorphism and the presence of dental calculus. A possibl...

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Main Authors: Gülnihal Emrem DOĞAN, Turgut DEMİR, Esra LALOĞLU, Ebru SAĞLAM, Hülya AKSOY, Abdulkadir YILDIRIM, Fatih AKÇAY
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Sociedade Brasileira de Pesquisa Odontológica
Series:Brazilian Oral Research
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Online Access:http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1806-83242016000100320&lng=en&tlng=en