he Faculty of Dentistry was established in 2008 and has 8 departments. These are the departments of: Oral and Maxillofacial Radiology, Endodontics, Prosthodontics, Periodontology, Orthodontics, Oral Maxillofacial Surgery, Pediatric Dentistry and Restorative Dentistry.
The teaching staff at the faculty is composed of 5 full professor, 4 associate professor, 11 assistant professors and 61 research assistants. There is also 17 administrative and technical staff.
The undergraduate education of our faculty is 5 years. Language of instruction is Turkish for all our departments. In the first three years, fundamental medical and dentistry lectures and preclinical educations are given to students. In 4. and 5. classes, education of the dentistry professional courses, clinical practice and internships are given to students.
Postgraduate education hasn’t started in all departments in our faculty but the associated PhD doctoral program with the Institute of Medical Sciences of Gazi University was started on 06.06.2013 in Endodontics and Prosthodontics departments. The studies to give postgraduate education for other departments are in progress.
For residency education program, our faculty accepts the students graduated from a dentistry faculty and succeeded in the Residency Examination for Dentistry (DUS).
The first priority of our faculty is to develop and encourage contemporary approaches to theoretical, clinical and preclinical studies for our students.
Our Faculty of Dentistry, which has a usage area of approximately 9000 m2, has a single building with its physical infrastructure in terms of education, teaching and administration. 4 lecture halls, computer and reading rooms, material cabinets for each student, 2 preclinics, 1 plaster, 1 phantom laboratories, 1 meeting hall, 1 conference hall and clinics where 8 departments provide education. In addition to the indispensable facilities found in all Dentistry Faculties, a General Operating Room with advanced technology equipment, Local Operating Rooms, Central Sterilization Unit, Dental Volumetric Tomography device, (Tirios) Intraoral Scanner, specific children's units, left-handed units suitable for use by left-handed students and academicians in each department, and a CAD-CAM device that allows prosthesis production in a short time without the need for taking measurements constitute a part of our current infrastructure.
The teaching staff at the faculty is composed of 5 full professor, 4 associate professor, 11 assistant professors and 61 research assistants. There is also 17 administrative and technical staff.
The undergraduate education of our faculty is 5 years. Language of instruction is Turkish for all our departments. In the first three years, fundamental medical and dentistry lectures and preclinical educations are given to students. In 4. and 5. classes, education of the dentistry professional courses, clinical practice and internships are given to students.
Postgraduate education hasn’t started in all departments in our faculty but the associated PhD doctoral program with the Institute of Medical Sciences of Gazi University was started on 06.06.2013 in Endodontics and Prosthodontics departments. The studies to give postgraduate education for other departments are in progress.
For residency education program, our faculty accepts the students graduated from a dentistry faculty and succeeded in the Residency Examination for Dentistry (DUS).
The first priority of our faculty is to develop and encourage contemporary approaches to theoretical, clinical and preclinical studies for our students.
Our Faculty of Dentistry, which has a usage area of approximately 9000 m2, has a single building with its physical infrastructure in terms of education, teaching and administration. 4 lecture halls, computer and reading rooms, material cabinets for each student, 2 preclinics, 1 plaster, 1 phantom laboratories, 1 meeting hall, 1 conference hall and clinics where 8 departments provide education. In addition to the indispensable facilities found in all Dentistry Faculties, a General Operating Room with advanced technology equipment, Local Operating Rooms, Central Sterilization Unit, Dental Volumetric Tomography device, (Tirios) Intraoral Scanner, specific children's units, left-handed units suitable for use by left-handed students and academicians in each department, and a CAD-CAM device that allows prosthesis production in a short time without the need for taking measurements constitute a part of our current infrastructure.
