DEAN'S MESSAGE

DEAN'S MESSAGE

Since November 22, 1908, when the official and contemporary Dentistry Education started to be given in our country, the number of countries that have provided modern dentistry education in their universities in the world geography for a full century is quite limited. It is our duty to protect such a valuable heritage that we inherited from our elders and to carry it higher.

With this sublime purpose, Erciyes University Faculty of Dentistry was officially established on January 16, 2001 with the Law No. 4617 Amending the Law on the Organization of Higher Education Institutions and started to provide clinical services in a small unit in 2004. Our faculty, which started its educational activities by taking its first students in the 2005-2006 academic year, took an important step towards institutionalization by giving its first graduates in 2010. The Faculty of Dentistry, which was built as 2 blocks by businessman Mehmet Tatar and his esteemed wife Hülya Tatar, moved to its new building at the end of 2006, and continues its education, research and clinical services in these buildings. In addition to these two blocks of our faculty, which grows rapidly and has difficulty meeting the needs, Gülşah and Mert M. The Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery Hospital, which was built by Tatar brothers and is the first branch hospital in the field of dentistry in our country, was opened in 2011 with all its units. In addition to the existing three blocks, with the support of State Investment Acceleration, the construction of a 9000 m2 block was started in 2010 and this building was put into service at the end of 2012. I would like to express with pleasure that our Faculty will have a structure that is difficult to reach in this field in our country, together with the Children's Dental Hospital, which has reached a total of 20,000 m2 of indoor usage area and we are planning to start construction in 2015. In addition to the existing three blocks, with the support of State Investment Acceleration, the construction of a 9000 m2 block was started in 2010 and this building was put into service at the end of 2012. I would like to express with pleasure that our Faculty will have a structure that is difficult to reach in this area in our country, together with the Children's Dental Hospital, which has reached a total of 20.000 m2 closed usage area and we are planning to start construction in 2015. In addition to the existing three blocks, with the support of State Investment Acceleration, the construction of a 9000 m2 block was started in 2010 and this building was put into service at the end of 2012. I would like to express with pleasure that our Faculty will have a structure that is difficult to reach in this area in our country, together with the Children's Dental Hospital, which has reached a total of 20,000 m2 of indoor usage area and we are planning to start construction in 2015.

The Republic of Turkey, came under the responsibility of a great historical process with the European Union. In this process, our duty; deal to provide a high standard of Turkey, it is a high value-added activities in science and technology in the geographic and strategic position of our country. In this direction, our primary goal is to raise intellectual and patriotic individuals who closely follow the developments in the world, produce, research, and have a national identity consciousness. The young and dynamic academicians of our faculty, which is a recent shining star of our country, have the self-confidence and excitement to achieve all the targeted works.

We hope that our faculty, of which you will be proud of being a graduate and / or a member, will get closer to you with this web page. Thank you to everyone who contributed.

Prof. Dr. H. Sinan TOPÇUOĞLU
Dean