New building of Faculty of Dentistry has a total of 5 classrooms, which 4 of them are located at the ground floor of student block designed as an amphitheater with 150 student capacity and 1 of them is located at the 2nd floor of student block with 186 student capacity with sound and visualization systems.
There is a laboratory with the capacity of 30 microscopes and projector with the assembly of classroom for histology course of basic sciences lecturers given by the faculty of medicine staff next to the student amphitheater at 2nd floor.
At the deanery floor (5th floor) there is a hall, which can be used for general meeting and presentations with 120 audience capacity and sound and vision systems.
There is another meeting hall, which is used for faculty board – administration board meetings are held with 20 people capacity and a projector. Apart from these, each department has their own seminar halls within their department floor.
Laboratory and clinics
There is a phantom lab with 60 student capacity and a prosthetic preclinical laboratory with 86 student capacity for the practical block courses, which is a must for dentistry education, located at the first floor of student block. These laboratories are founded with the contributions of the ministry of development and Ondokuz Mayis University Rectorship and faculty.
Research laboratory is located at the first floor of cafeteria block of our new faculty. All devices obtained from the completed projects funded by The Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey and university research fund are presented for the use of all academic staff at the Research and Development Laboratories.
Divisions / Departments / Programs within Faculty
• Department of Oral Diagnosis and Radiology (Ground floor)
• Department of Oral Dental and Maxillofacial Diseases and Surgery (1st floor)
• Department of Periodontology (2nd floor)
• Department of Prosthetics (2nd floor)
• Department of Endodontics (3rd floor)
• Department of Restorative Treatment (3rd floor)
• Department of Pediatric Dentistry (4th floor)
• Department of Orthodontics (4th floor)
• Multidisciplinary clinics- Public Oral and Dental Health Internship
• Black Sea Region Oral and Dental Health Clinics for patients with disabilities (Division of general anesthesia) (1st floor)
These 8 departments give theory, preclinical and clinical education to terms 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th and 5th classes at the dentistry license level. Multidisciplinary clinic, which takes place in city center polyclinic increases the ability of students of clinical practice terms to present solutions for contemporary dental practice under the supervision of academic members.
Health Sciences Institute has PHd programs of all departments and actively produces graduates. Departments recruit postgraduate specialty students that passed central specialty exams.
At the Black Sea Region Oral and Dental Health Clinics for patients with disabilities;
• Polyclinic, which served patients with 2 beds within the surgery department now is serving as a different unit at the 1st floor of new faculty building across to the surgery department with 1 anesthetist, anesthetics staff, nurse and secretary and 1 active, 1 yet-not-activated operation rooms, 10 patient care rooms and resting rooms pre- and post-operation.
• Services include primarily the dental treatment of handicapped patients and secondarily treatment of individuals with dental phobia and extreme gag-reflex.