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Correlation of Salivary Statherin and Calcium Levels with Dental Calculus Formation: A Preliminary Study

BACKGROUND: Salivary constituents have a wide range of functions including oral calcium homeostasis. Salivary proteins such as statherin inhibit crystal growth of calcium phosphate in supersaturated solutions and interact with several oral bacteria to adsorb on hydroxyapatite. Concurrently, saliva,...

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Autores principales: Pateel, Deepak Gowda Sadashivappa, Gunjal, Shilpa, Math, Swarna Y., Murugeshappa, Devarasa Giriyapura, Nair, Sreejith Muraleedharan
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Hindawi 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5442335/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28572822
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2017/2857629