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Patients with dental calculus have increased saliva and gingival crevicular fluid fetuin-A levels but no association with fetuin-A polymorphisms.
Brazilian oral research - 22 Dec 2016
Doğan Gülnihal Emrem, Demir Turgut, Laloğlu Esra, Sağlam Ebru, Aksoy Hülya, Yildirim Abdulkadir, Akçay Fatih
Abstract excerpt
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 possible relationship between serum, saliva and gingival crevicular fluid (GCF) levels of fetuin-A was also investigated. Fetuin-A...
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