Dentist is a specialist who graduated from school of dentistry with 5 years of education and specialized in the protection and treatment of oral and dental health.
Dentists can receive additional training after graduation to specialize, just like in other branches of medicine. There are various specialties such as orthodontics, maxillofacial surgery, endodontics (Canal treatment), pedodontics (Pediatric dentistry), prosthesis specialization. After dentistry, you become a specialist dentist with an additional 4-year training in faculties and a specialist certificate is issued by the Ministry of Health.
Dr Burak AKSU graduated from Hacettepe University Faculty of Dentistry in 2000, and was accepted to doctorate and specialization training at Istanbul University (Çapa) Faculty of Dentistry in the same year.
He was appointed as a lecturer in 2001 and started to work in the clinic where multidisciplinary dentistry treatments are performed, with the title of orthodontist and doctor of science (Ph.D) in 2007.