| Ankara University Faculty of Dentistry | |
| Established: | 1953 |
| Language: | Turkish and English |
| Former Name: | Ankara University Faculty of Dentistry School |
| Dean: | Kaan Orhan |
| City: | , Ankara, |
| Country: | Turkey |
| Website: | dentistry.ankara.edu.tr |
| Affiliation: | Ankara University |
Ankara University Faculty of Dentistry, is a dentistry school affiliated to Ankara University. It provides education and training at the university's Beşevler Campus.
A five-year program at the under-graduate degree is provided. The medium of instruction are Turkish and English.
Studies for the establishment of Ankara University Faculty of Dentistry were conducted in 1959. The decision to establish a "School of Dentistry" was taken at a meeting of the board of professors on March 15, 1959. It was led by Zafer Paykoç, the then dean of Ankara University Faculty of Medicine (FOM).[1]
The commission, established in line with the prepared report, prepared a draft law and presented it to the deanery. The draft law was approved by the board and was sent to the University Senate, however due to the May 27, 1960 Revolution, progress stalled.[2]
In September, 1963 upon the request of the FOM Board of Professors, a new report was prepared by Cihat Borçbakan, Professor of Maxillofacial and Plastic Surgery Gülhane Military Medical Academy and a lecturer of maxillofacial surgery at FOM Ear Nose and Throat Clinic.[3] The regulation prepared approving the college was issued in the Official Gazette dated December 1963 and no 11581 and was enacted.[4]
FOM School of Dentistry opened on January 29, 1964. The first director was Cihat Borçbakan. The school had its first graduates in 1968.
By June 25, 1973, the School of Dentistry became the Faculty of Dentistry. Borçbakan was appointed as the first faculty dean. Administrative units and basic medicine departments were moved in February 1974 to a building rented in Sağlık Sokak in Sıhhiye neighbourhood and the clinics moved in April 1975 to a building rented in Ziya Gökalp Caddesi in Kızılay district.