Deapartment of Orthodontics
Orthodontics, to prevent the occurrence of disorders related to the tooth-jaw-face area; It is a specialty that aims to provide a good aesthetics and function (biting, chewing, speaking, laughing) by diagnosing, stopping and treating existing disorders.
Orthodontic treatment is not only aimed at aesthetics, but also helps the person to bite, chew and speak effectively as well as gum diseases and joint problems that may occur in the future.
Since it will be more difficult to maintain oral hygiene with crowded teeth, gum ailments and decays will be easier. In case of crowding and when the joint relation is broken, a number of problems start in the digestive system because the chewing function cannot be performed properly. With orthodontic treatment, these problems are prevented. At the same time, orthodontic treatment is to provide aesthetics and psychological support by increasing the patient’s self-confidence in the society.
Pediatric Dentistry
Oral and dental health in childhood seriously affects future oral and dental health. For this reason, it is of great importance to quickly solve the problems that occur in this period and prevent the emergence of new problems in terms of preventing serious problems in the future. Dentists who have received special training in this subject and who perform all kinds of treatment and preventive dentistry procedures applied to children are called pediatric dentist, this branch of dentistry is called paediatric dentistry.
Paediatric dentistry is basically divided into 2 parts:
Treating the problems that have occurred: include all treatments such as filling, root canal treatment, extraction, space maintainer
Preventive dentistry applied to prevent the occurrence of problems: These procedures are applied to protect teeth against caries. Preventive dentistry is especially important for children. Since it is an effortless, cheap and painless application, it is preferred that the first encounter of children with the dentist is about preventive dentistry.
Department of Periodontology
Periodontology is a science that evaluates anatomy, physiology, and histology of soft and hard tissues around natural teeth and implant, investigates diseases of these tissues, provides treatment of these diseases and on-going health after treatment.
Periodontal diseases, which are the most common oral diseases in the world, present with bleeding, swelling, halitosis, recession, and occasional pain on gingiva of naturel teeth and implant, and may result in mobility and tooth/implant loss in the following period.
Bacterial plaque as a result of accumulating food debris on tooth and implant depending on false/insufficient brushing lies at the basis of periodontal diseases. In addition to bacterial plaque, smoking, uncontrolled diabetes, and genetic predisposition have effects on the onset and progression of gingival diseases.
It has been reported in many studies that gingival diseases, which are the most important diseases of oral health, poses a risk for heart diseases, preterm birth and even low birth weight by affecting whole body through bloodstream. It can be concluded that treatment of gingival diseases also contributes to body health.
A dental clinic and a local operating room for diagnosis and treatment are found in our department. The following treatments are practised through cavitron, physio dispenser, piezo, cautery, laser, and centrifuge devices:
1. Non-surgical periodontal treatment: Scaling and root planning, subgingival curettage, splint of periodontally mobile teeth, periodontal abscess treatment, oral hygiene motivation
2. Surgical periodontal treatment: Frenectomy, gingivectomy, gingivoplasty, gingival aesthetics, flap surgery, treatment of gingival overgrowth and recessions, resective and regenerative bone surgery, periodontal plastic surgery, preprosthetic periodontal surgery, vestibuloplasty, PRF application
3. Implant surgery: Basic and advanced implant applications, treatment of periimplantitis (periimplant gingival diseases), direct or indirect sinus lifting, horizontal and vertical crest augmentation
4. Laser and cautery applications: Periodontal and periimplant decontamination, gingivectomy, gingivoplasty, frenectomy, stopping bleeding, treatment of excessive pigmentation.
Department of Prosthodontics
The department sees education and scientific research as its main goal. Along with educational and scientific activities, patient treatments are also carried out. These treatments are performed with the help of traditional and current dental prostheses, implants and computer aided production. In the department, intern students perform patient treatment practices on patients under the supervision of faculty members, as well as specialist students and faculty members in Hatay and surrounding provinces, providing prosthetic dental treatment. In the clinical activities, the school provide the highest quality and healthiest prosthetic dental treatment service.
Faculty of Dentistry – Department Information
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Language
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Turkish
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Program Time (Year)
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5
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Max.Program Time (Year)
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8
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Program Quota
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82
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Internships Status
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Have
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Qualification Awarded
The students who have graduated from the Faculty of Dentistry is awarded with a Dentist degree in the field of medicine.
The students who have successfully graduated from the department may apply to post graduate programmes in the field of dentistry here and in other universities, as well as other fields accepting student from the field of dentistry.
Graduation Requirements
The graduation requirements for the Faculty of Dentistry are the same as the qualification requirements and regulations. There is no additional requirement to secure the Dentist Degree provided that the students have passed all the courses in the curriculum with at least a CC grade.
Occupational Profiles of Graduates
The graduates of the Faculty of Dentistry have many opportunities of employment in a varitey of state and private companies. The job opportunities for the graduates are immense. They are recruited as practitioners or they can get a job in private institutions. Moreover, they can specialize in any field after obtaining the required scores from Dentistry Specialization Examination (Its abreviation is DUS in Turkish). Those who complete post-graduate programme can establish their own consulting-rooms or still they can get a job in various health clinics or institutions. Besides, they can continue their academic career in faculties.
Assessment and Grading
The students are subjected to various evaluation methods such as exam(s), homework, project(s), practice(s) and final exam. The evaluation methods include: written exam(s), true-false test(s), short-answered test(s), multiple-choice test(s), oral exam(s), homework, project(s),designs(s),portfolio, and performance duties (application/laboratory/workshop/field work/seminar/presentation/term paper/dissertation). This part is explained in detail on the individual course information page for each course.
All exams and other activities are graded based on 100 points. The midterm and final exams represent 40% and 60% of the final grade, respectively. However, a student who gets a grade below 30 out of 100 is graded as FF. A student obtaining one of the grades of (AA), (BA), (BB), (CB), (CC), (G), and (B) is considered successful in that course. To enter exams, students must meet following requirements that are specifically outlined in “Mustafa Kemal University Regulation for Vocational and Undergraduate Education and Examination”:
a) Enrolment for the course in question,
b) At least 70% attendance of the course,
c) At least 80% attendance of the practices in the course,
d) Successfully completing practical projects.
Grade conversion is carried out from the 100 grade scale into the Letter grade scale and 4 point grade scale using the table given below for Bachelor’s Degree Programs at Mustafa Kemal University.
Type of Education (Goal)
The main purpose of the faculty is to train specialists, conduct research and promote scientific oriented students to become high caliber of physicians. Graduates of the School of Dentistry are trained to promote health and to be aware of the main health problems of their local communities. The students are taught to use technical equipment cost-effectively. The faculty attempts to form the attitudes of the students according to ethical approaches. The students are taught to learn through all of their lives and to work for humanity as well as to do their best for their country.
Objectives
1-A dentist understand the field of health concepts and their relationships at the undergraduate level, depending on the basis of qualifications gained in secondary education, and has advanced theoretical and practical knowledge supported with the field of health textbooks that contain current information, application and tools, and other sources.
2) A dentist has the knowledge to assessment the nature, source, limits, accuracy, reliability, and validity of the information.
Program Learning Outcomes
With the successful completion of this program, students will be able to
1-is capable of reaching scientific information about health, following, evaluating and practice recent literature
2-is able to use and interprete his or her advanced and scientificly proved knowledge about health to specifiy problems, analises them, finds solutions or suggests solutions using researches, evidence based Professional knowledge and watching ethical values. He/she shares knowledge, works as a team and knows how to share responsibility
3 -solves specific problems of dentistry by scientific data and proofs
4 -evaluates judgmentally his advanced knowledge and skills about health
5-determines goal of education and shows how to learn
6-is capable of providing general preventive treatment about dental ilnesses to patients of all ages. Also he/she can teach something to patients about dental problems and can take in charge in this kind of projects
7-can gain the mission of preventive dentistry and can pass it to patients
8-collects data about his field, interprets, applies and declares the results of this studies. when doing this subjects, he/she can also cooparate with experts of various discplines and acts according to ethically, culturel, scientific and social values
9-has enough knowledge about social dental health, management of clinic, education of assistant personal, working order, protection of infectious diseases, safety of enviroment and work
10-has enough information about all of the laws related with his job and acts in the way of this laws
11-communicates effectively by words and documentally
12-has skills to evaluate the nature, source, borders , truth, reliability and validity of information
13-get responsibility as a member of a team and personally to solve the complicated problems that unexpected about his own field
Soft Skills of The Programme
Undergraduate teaching has historically focused on developing the practical skills trainee dentists need to become competent clinicians. These ‘hard skills’ consist of the necessary knowledge and techniques students attain during training. While these clinical skills are critical to dentistry, it has become increasingly recognised that non-clinical attributes are also valuable assets to the dental practitioner. While considered ‘soft’, non-clinical skills are hard to learn and often overlooked because they don’t directly add to our clinical repertoire.
At Hatay Mustafa Kemal University dentistry undergraduate programme the soft skills below are given to the students with 4 different lectures ; Behavioral Science (2 credits) at year one, Psycology (2 credits)at year 2, consumer education(2 credits) at year 3, Management of Healthcare organizations(1 credit) at year 5. With those lectures in the study plan, soft skills learining outcomes below are aimed,
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Enthusiasm,
Organise treatment plan with adequate patient appointments
Organise both hard and soft skills
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Communication Skills,
First be a good listener ,a good listener will always be a good speaker
Pace of communication should be adequately paced,give appropriate pause ,test the patient whether he understands what is being communicated
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Leadership skills , Emphaty skills
Ability to understand what and how patient is feeling. People often do not like to visit a doctor’s office. If a person needs severe dental treatment, then it makes sense to be fearful. Some dental procedures involve sharp tools including a dental drill. When a patient is nervous, anxious, or panicking,
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Ability to focus,
you need accuracy and precision to perform procedures properly.
