Dear Students, Dear Academic and Administrative Staff,
Lokman Hekim University has created a unique first in Ankara, our capital city, by hosting five health-related faculties within the health-themed university concept.
Our Faculty of Dentistry, one of these faculties, has taken steps towards rapid development.
Our Faculty of Dentistry, which is one of these faculties, has developed rapidly in a short time and caused us to experience a justified pride by giving its first graduates in 2023-2024.
Within the framework of a five-year education with equivalent education in Turkish and English, in the first three years of vocational education, our students develop their professional skills with pre-clinical practice courses as well as basic medical courses and theoretical courses in dentistry.
Our pre-clinical practical courses are held in fully equipped prosthesis and multidisciplinary phantom laboratories located on the 5th and 6th floors of our faculty building and the applications to be performed on the patient are taught by simulation by providing one-to-one clinical conditions. Our students get to know clinical environments by going on “Clinical Observations” in the spring semester starting from the 3rd grade.
The 4th and 5th grades are the classes where clinical applications are predominantly given and are organized in such a way that all treatments of the patient are carried out from start to finish under the supervision of faculty members.
Our faculty has been accepted for membership by the European Dental Education Association, known as ADEE (Association for Dental Education in Europe). Our education model has been organized within the framework of a system that fulfills the conditions recommended by the European Dental Education Association and implemented in European Union countries. Thus, our courses in the curriculum include all the knowledge and competencies required for dentists graduated from European Union countries.
In addition, in our faculty, an education program that is compatible with the National Core Education Program for Pre-Graduation Dentistry-2024 (Duçep-2024), which is valid in all dental curricula, is implemented.
The material of the dentist is human, taking this into consideration, I would like to emphasize that you should be sure that we will make endless efforts together with all our academic staff in education in order to ensure that you empathize and develop common sense with the utmost care, especially in your bedside practices, and that we will follow up on this.
Our goal in education is to train modern dentists who have a command of current technological developments, have high synthesis skills, and have ethical values.
Dentistry is a very valuable profession that is closely related to aesthetic concepts that include science and art.
Today, digitalization extends its arms to all sides and naturally draws our profession into it at a dizzying speed. The educational part of these applications, which create various comforts and conveniences for both the physician and the patient by minimizing the time factor in the procedures performed, is included in our curriculum in every aspect. Our most important goal is to constantly renew our knowledge and transfer it to our students in order to train dentists who have proven themselves in the international arena, have advanced knowledge and research skills, and have a developed sense of social responsibility.
The preference of our faculty by international students is increasing day by day. It is aimed to provide the best dentistry education in Turkey to both domestic and international students with a strong academic staff. Our greatest principle is to train dentists who are loyal to the oath of Hippocrates, who lived in ancient times and is considered to be the founder of western medicine, and all our efforts until the end of your education period, when we will send you off with this oath, is to equip you with modern knowledge and to send you off as dentists who are proud to be graduates of “Lokman Hekim University Faculty of Dentistry” with ethical values. I believe that we will carry out this honorable and important task in the best way possible with an understanding of superior responsibility, and I would like to express my gratitude to all my dear colleagues in the academic and administrative staff, whose efforts in this regard I have no doubt.
With love and respect...
Prof. Dr. LALE KARAAĞAÇLIOĞLU
Dean of Faculty of Dentistry
