Dr. Yurdanur Ucar PhD degree in Oral Biology
Turkey
Dr. Yurdanur Ucar PhD degree in Oral Biology
Dr. Uçar graduated from Ankara University, Dental College in 1999. She earned Master of Science degree in Dental Materials in 2005 and PhD degree in Oral Biology in 2007 from The Ohio State University, USA. She also graduated from PhD program in Prosthetic Dentistry in Çukurova University in 2007 and was assigned as an assistant-professor in the same department in 2008. Dr. Uçar earned associate professor position in 2012, full professor position in 2019. She served as Department Head and was Vice Dean for Educational Affairs. She is adjunct faculty in Department of Biotechnology. She served as board member of the Biotechnology Center, Health Sciences Institute and Ankara Section of Turkish Prosthodontics and Implantology Association (TPID). She is currently Secretary and Treasures of Implantology Research Group (IRG) under Internatioanal Association for Dental Research (IADR). She is past President of IADR-IRG. Dr. Uçar who has high citation records collaborated on a number of clinical studies on dental implantology. She has research projects funded by ITI, TUBITAK, Çukurova University, DENTSPLY and TFI. Her research interests are layered manufacturing, dental implantology, optical and mechanical properties of ceramic materials and hard tissue engineering. She is an ITI-fellow and co-founder of a company named BioFuture.