**Meet the editor**

Zühre Akarslan was born in 1977 in Cyprus. She graduated from Gazi University Faculty of Dentistry, Ankara, Turkey, in 2000. Later, she received her PhD degree from the Oral Diagnosis and Radiology Department of the same university in 2007. The department was recently renamed as Oral and Dentomaxillofacial Radiology. She is working as a full-time associate professor and is a

lecturer and an academic researcher in Gazi University since 2011. She has published research in various international and national journals, has written a book chapter, and serves as an editorial board member and reviewer of several scientific journals. Her expertise areas are dental caries, cancer, dental fear and anxiety, gag reflex in dentistry, oral medicine, and dentomaxillofacial radiology. She is married and has two children.
