IntechOpen Book Series Dentistry Volume 2

Belma Işık Aslan was born in 1976 in Ankara, Turkey. She graduated from Gazi University Faculty of Dentistry, Turkey in 1999. She received her PhD degree from the Orthodontics Department of the same university in 2005. She became an Associate Professor in 2014 and is currently working as a fulltime lecturer and an academic researcher. She has published a large amount of research in various international and national

journals, written book chapters, and she serves as an editorial board member and reviewer of several scientific journals. Her expertise areas are cleft lip and palate, mini-implants, fixed-functional appliances, surgery first, and Class II and Class III treatment. She is married and has two children.

**Editor of Volume 2: Belma Işık Aslan** Department of Orthodontics, Gazi University, Faculty of Dentistry, Turkey

Fatma Deniz Uzuner was born in 1969 in İzmit, Turkey. She graduated from Hacettepe University Faculty of Dentistry, Turkey in 1992. She received her PhD degree from the Orthodontics Department of Gazi University in 2000. She worked as an orthodontist in the Ministry of Health between 2000 and 2008. She became an Associate Professor in 2017 and is currently working as a full-time lecturer and an academic researcher.

She has published a large amount of research in various international and national journals, written book chapters, and she serves as an editorial board member and reviewer of several scientific journals. Her expertise areas are accelerated orthodontics, corticotomy, cleft lip and palate, and mini-implants. She has a daughter.

**Editor of Volume 2: Fatma Deniz Uzuner** Department of Orthodontics, Gazi University, Faculty of Dentistry, Turkey

**Book Series Editor: Zühre Akarslan** Gazi University, Ankara, Turkey
