Burak Yilmaz DDS, PhD

Dr. Burak Yilmaz is a prosthodontist in Bern, Switzerland, where he is the Director of Digital Dental Technologies Laboratory in the School of Dental Medicine at the University of Bern. He is also an Adjunct Professor in the Division of Restorative and Prosthetic Dentistry at The Ohio State University College of Dentistry.

Dr. Yilmaz obtained his dental degree in 2000 from Ankara University School of Dentistry, Turkey, where he also received his PhD in prosthodontics in 2007. He completed an implant prosthodontic fellowship at Ohio State College of Dentistry Advanced Prosthodontics and Implant Clinic in 2009. He was granted the Associate Professor title with tenure in 2014 and the Professor title in May 2019 at Ohio State. In September 2020, he was appointed as the Director of the Digital Dental Technologies Laboratory in the School of Dental Medicine at the University of Bern.

Dr. Yilmaz has a special interest in implant dentistry and has published more than 250 original research studies and clinical reports. He is the co-author of the chapter on implants and the chapter on impressions in the 6th edition of Contemporary Fixed Prosthodontics, by Rosenstiel et al. He is Associate Editor of the Journal of Prosthodontics, and an editorial board member of the Journal of Prosthetic Dentistry and the Digital Dentistry Section of the Journal of Dentistry.