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2017-2018 Academic Year "White Coat Ceremony" of 1st Grade Students started with Vice Rector Prof. Dr. Tülay Baran's opening speech. After the speech of Faculty of Dentistry Dean Prof. Dr. R. Figen Kaptan, plaques were presented to our students who graduated in the academic year 2016-2017. Our first year students who took the first steps into the Dentistry profession caused moments of pride for both their families and us by wearing their white coats after the plaque ceremony. We congratulate them all and wish them success in the long academic journey ahead of them.

The CED-IADR / NOF Oral Health Research Congress, one of the most important congresses held in the field of Dentistry, took place in the Austrian Capital of Vienna on 21-23 September 2017.

Yeditepe was mentioned once again because the vast majority of participants were from Turkey and especially from Yeditepe University Faculty of Dentistry. Former CED-IADR Chairman and IADR board member, and academic member at the Restorative Dental Treatment Department Prof. Dr. Esra Can Eroğlu once again made Turkey and Yeditepe University proud with her speech at the General Assembly meeting.

Prof. Dr. Esra Can Eroğlu, Assoc. Prof. Dr. Meriç Karapınar Kazandağ from the Endodontics Department, and Assoc. Prof. Dr. Hare Gürsoy from the Periodontology Department were the only ones chosen from Turkey to the scientific committee of the Congress.

Dr. Nazlı Şirinsükan and Dr. Tuğçe Tunanç from the Restorative Dental Treatment Department won the '' Travel Award '' with their presentations. Assoc. Prof. Dr. Meriç Karapınar Kazandağ from the Endodonti Department with a session presidency and 2 poster presentations,  Dr. Gizem İnce and Dt. Begüm Atalay with their oral presentations, Assoc. Prof. Dr. Hare Gürsoy, Asst. Prof Dr. Ebru Özkan Karaca, and Merve Halaçoğlu from Restorative Dental Treatment with their poster presentations successfully represented Yeditepe University Faculty of Dentistry. We congratulate out professors once more for their social and academic success at the congress.

The biennial Student Symposium, organized by the European Federation of Periodontology (EFP), took place in Ireland on 7-9 September 2017.

The symposium was attended by the directors, coordinators and students of the EFP accredited Periodontology Programs of 15 different dental faculties from 10 European countries participating in the EFP.

Dt. Begüm Atalay's "Clinical evaluation of the efficacy of hyaluronan-containing oral mouthwash on plaque inhibition", Dt. Ece Yarımoğlu's treatment of a patient with Miller 2 gingival recession by gingival unit grafts (Kuru & Yıldırım, J Periodontol., 2013) and the case reports including the 1-year follow-up of the patient were of great interest.

At the Meeting, Prof. Dr. Bahar Eren Kuru directed the research presented by the University of Madrid Complutense and case presentations of the University of Strasbourg's peri-implantitis treatment, and open them to debate to all the students.

The Symposium where Turkey was successfully represented by the Department of Periodontology of Yeditepe University Faculty of Dentistry offered opportunities for exchange of students and faculty members from both universities and faculties in terms of social and academic relations. At the meetings held during the symposium, the Yeditepe Dentistry Faculty Periodontology Program and Turkey were presented as candidate countries and programs for the symposium to be held in 2019.

The symposium was attended by Yeditepe University Faculty of Dentistry as the sole practitioner of an accredited periodontology program by EFP from Turkey. On behalf of the faculty, the Head of the Department and Program Director Prof. Dr. Bahar Eren Kuru, Program Coordinator Assoc. Dr. Hare Gürsoy and program students Dt. Begüm Atalay, Dt. Ece Deniz Yarımoğlu and Dt. Kübra Burcu attended the symposium.

 

The Subcommittee on Strategic Management of the Dentistry Deans Council meeting, chaired by Yeditepe University Faculty of Dentistry Dean Prof. Dr. R. Figen Kaptan, took place on September 22nd, 2017 at Yeditepe University Faculty of Dentistry.