Doç. Dr. Mehmet Ali Altay

Mehmet Ali Altay was born in Antalya in 1983. Upon finishing his dental education at Hacettepe University in 2008, he started doctoral training at the Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery of the same university. In 2012, Dr. Altay received his PhD degree, defending his doctoral thesis titled “The supportive role of diode laser in the treatment of bisphosphonate related osteonecrosis of jaws”. Then, he started working as a specialist at the Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery at Akdeniz University. In 2014, Dr. Altay went to the United States of America to study and to conduct research, and worked for a year as a research fellow at the Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery of Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio. Upon his return to Turkey in 2015, Dr. Altay was appointed as an assistant professor and started working as a faculty member at the Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery at Akdeniz University. He worked as a visiting professor at the Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam in 2018. Dr. Altay qualified as an associate professor in 2019 and is currently a faculty member at the Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery at Akdeniz University.

Dr. Altay authored more than thirty research articles published by internationally indexed journals and two chapters in internationally published reference books. He also serves an editorial board member and reviews for several scientific journals in the field of oral and maxillofacial surgery.