Bahcesehir University
Bachelor of Dental Medicine
Istanbul, Turkey
DURATION
5 Years
LANGUAGES
English
PACE
Full time
APPLICATION DEADLINE
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EARLIEST START DATE
Sep 2025
TUITION FEES
USD 24,000 / per year
STUDY FORMAT
On-Campus
Key Summary
About: The Bachelor of Dental Medicine offers a comprehensive education in dentistry. This program prepares students with the necessary clinical skills and theoretical knowledge to excel in dental practice and patient care responsibilities. The curriculum includes hands-on training and access to state-of-the-art facilities, empowering students to confidently address various oral health issues.
Career Outcomes: Graduates can pursue careers as dentists, dental hygienists, or dental researchers. Other potential roles include oral health educators, clinical specialists, and positions within public health organizations focusing on dental health initiatives.
Introduction
With the “holistic patient treatment approach” targeted by our faculty, the expanded educational curriculum that includes “Digital-Aesthetic-Implant Dentistry” applications, which emerged as a result of current technological developments, will be differentiated to other Dentistry Undergraduate Programs.
In accordance with this purpose; Bahçeşehir University School of Dental Medicine Program Outcomes were matched with the key Dental Education Core Training Program (DUÇEP -2016 Version 3.0). Students who successfully complete the first two years of the dentistry education program are given the title of “Degree in Basic Dentistry” and the students who complete the five-year faculty of dentistry are given the title of Graduate Diploma in Dentistry”.
Admissions
Curriculum
Course Structure
1st Semester
- Dental Anatomy Theoretical
- Organic Chemistry
- Anatomy
- Medical Biology and Genetics
- Biophysics
- Preventive Dentistry & Introduction to Public Oral and Dental Health
- Biostatistics
- Introduction to Communication for Dental Health Care Providers
- Dental Anatomy Practice
- Communications Skills and Academic Reporting I
- Atatürk's Principles and History of the Turkish Republic I
- Turkish Language and Literature I
2nd Semester
- Dental Anatomy Theoretical
- Organic Chemistry
- Anatomy
- Medical Biology and Genetics
- Biophysics
- Preventive Dentistry & Introduction to Public Oral and Dental Health
- Biostatistics
- Introduction to Communication for Dental Health Care Providers
- Dental Anatomy Practice
- Communication Skills and Academic Reporting II
- Atatürk's Principles and History of the Turkish Republic II
- Child Law and Child Psychology
- Turkish Language and Literature II
3rd Semester
- Prosthodontics Theoretical- I
- Restorative Dentistry Theoretical I
- Endodontics Theoretical- I
- Histology- I
- Microbiology - I
- Physiology - I
- Biochemistry - I
- Anatomy - II
- Dental Materials
- Research Methodology & Introduction to Evidence-Based Dentistry-I
- Prosthodontics Practice -I
- Restorative Dentistry Practice I
- Endodontics Practice - I
- GE-Elective
4th Semester
- Prosthodontics Theoretical- I
- Restorative Dentistry Theoretical I
- Endodontics Theoretical- I
- Histology- I
- Microbiology - I
- Physiology - I
- Biochemistry - I
- Anatomy - II
- Dental Materials
- Research Methodology & Introduction to Evidence-Based Dentistry-I
- Prosthodontics Practice -I
- Restorative Dentistry Practice I
- Endodontics Practice - I
- GE-Elective
5th Semester
- Prosthodontics Theoretical - II
- Restorative Dentistry Theoretical- II
- Endodontics Theoretical II
- Pediatric Dentistry - I
- Oral Diagnosis and Dental Radiology- I
- Periodontology - I
- Orthodontics - I
- Oral and Dental Surgery - I
- Pharmacology- I
- Pathology - I
- Prosthodontics Practice -II
- Restorative Dentistry Practice- II
- Endodontics Practice- II
- Departmental Elective
- Non-Departmental Elective
6th Semester
- Prosthodontics Theoretical - II
- Restorative Dentistry Theoretical- II
- Endodontics Theoretical II
- Pediatric Dentistry - I
- Oral Diagnosis and Dental Radiology- I
- Periodontology - I
- Orthodontics - I
- Oral and Dental Surgery - I
- Pharmacology- I
- Pathology - I
- Introduction to Clinical Practice
- Prosthodontics Practice -II
- Restorative Dentistry Practice- II
- Endodontics Practice- II
- Departmental Elective
7th Semester
- Multidisciplinary Clinic- I
- Pediatric Dentistry - II
- Oral Diagnosis and Dental Radiology II
- Periodontology - II
- Orthodontics - II
- Oral and Dental Surgery - II
- Oral Pathology
- Oral Medicine
- Departmental Elective
- Non-Departmental Elective
- GE-Elective
8th Semester
- Multidisciplinary Clinic- I
- Pediatric Dentistry - II
- Oral Diagnosis and Dental Radiology II
- Periodontology - II
- Orthodontics - II
- Oral and Dental Surgery - II
- Oral Pathology
- Oral Medicine
- Departmental Elective
- Non-Departmental Elective
- GE-Elective
9th Semester
- Multidisciplinary Clinic - II
- Public Oral and Dental Health
- Graduate Thesis
- Clinical Medical Sciences
- Departmental Elective
- GE-Elective
10th Semester
- Multidisciplinary Clinic - II
- Public Oral and Dental Health
- Graduate Thesis
- Clinical Medical Sciences
- Departmental Elective
- GE-Elective
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Career Opportunities
- Graduates of the Faculty of Dentistry have the opportunity to work in public or as free dentists.
- They can work in all hospitals, oral-dental health centers, and polyclinics of the Ministry of Health.
- They can open their private practice and work as a self-employed physician or by establishing joint polyclinics with their colleagues.
- They can work as a permanent dentist in private hospitals, oral-dental health centers, and polyclinics.
- They can have an academic career in public and private universities.
- Graduates of the Faculty of Dentistry can do a doctorate in science in the field of dentistry and basic medical sciences and can gain expertise in dentistry.
- Graduates who want to practice in Dentistry; According to the results of the Specialization Training Entrance Examination (DUS), which is held once a year by the ÖSYM, they are accepted to the specialist education and they start their specialization training in the Faculty of Dentistry of the state and foundation universities or the Faculty of Dentistry on behalf of the Ministry of Health.
- Graduates wishing to pursue a doctorate in science; can apply to clinical dentistry doctoral programs at the faculties of dentistry at the state or private universities and to the doctoral programs of basic medical sciences at the medical faculties. Those who are successful as a result of the evaluation will start their Ph.D.