“…Fetuin‐A is an inhibitor of calcification and inhibits the collapse of calcium phosphate crystals and plays a role in regulating bone mineralization by preventing ectopic calcification (Türer, Ballı, & Güven, ). In a study investigating whether fetuin‐A values are effective in the presence of dental calculus, salivary fetuin‐A levels were detected in patients with dental calculus and it was defined that this situation might result from an adaptive mechanism to inhibit mineral precipitation and eventually calculus formation (Doğan et al, ). Fetuin‐A protein, in addition to being an inhibitor of calcification, acts as a TGF‐ antagonist (Demetriou, Binkert, Sukhu, Tenenbaum, & Dennis, ).…”