Севда Янчева
Севда Янчева

Sevda Yantcheva

Assoc. Prof. Dr. Sevda Mihailova Yantcheva, PhD

Head of Department "Conservative Dentistry"

 

Work experience:

  • 30 years of experience in the speciality;
  • Currently – PhD, Associated Professor, Department Conservative Dentistry, Faculty of Dental Medicine, Medical University - Sofia.

Education:

  • 2017 - educational and scientific degree of PhD;
  • 2005 - Specialty "General Dental Medicine“;
  • 1997 - Specialty "Operative Dentistry and Endodontics";
  • 1992 - Master's Degree in Dental Medicine, FDM, MU- Sofia.

Additional specialisations and postgraduate qualification courses:

  • Specialisation, Sofia University "St. Climent Ohridski" - Intensive English language course - 2002;
  •  Qualification course "State-of-the-Art of tooth-coloured Adhesive Restorations" 2003; Ulm, Germany; supervisor: Prof. Dr B.Haller;

The State Medical Association of Baden Württemberg, Stuttgart (Germany) and the European Accreditation Council recognise the course as an element of continuing medical education.

  • Qualification course "Presentation training for lecturers" 2005; Elmau, Germany.

Scientific degree: "PhD" (2017)

Academic titles and positions:

  • 2022 - Associate Professor, Department of Conservative Dentistry, FDM - Sofia;
  • 2018-2022 - chief assistant, Department of Conservative Dentistry, FDM - Sofia;
  • 2015-2018 - Assistant, Department of Conservative Dentistry, FDM - Sofia;
  • 1993-2015 - successively: assistant, senior assistant and chief assistant at the Department of Conservative Dentistry, FDM - Sofia;
  • 2016-2020 - a member of the Faculty Council of FDM - Sofia;
  • 2016-2020 - a member of the Academic Council of the MU - Sofia;
  • 2016-2022 - chief administrative assistant of the Department of Conservative Dentistry, FDM - Sofia;
  • 1998-2016 - assistant responsible for the treatment activities of the Department of Conservative Dentistry, FDM - Sofia.  

Scientific activity:

  • Defended thesis paper: Investigation of low-shrinkage resin composites for direct restorations of class II lesions, Sofia 2017;
  • Author of the monograph: Modern dental resin composites Ways to overcome polymerisation shrinkage, Sofia 2021. (ISBN 978-619-7671-12-4);
  • Two educational films;
  • 31 scientific publications in Bulgarian and foreign journals;
  • 12 participations with lectures, reports/posters in scientific events;
  • Two participations in scientific projects - GRANT, financed by MU-Sofia;
  • over 50 citations in Bulgarian and foreign scientific articles, dissertations, monographs.

Scientific interests: innovations in resin composites; biodegradation of dental composite materials; problems related to endodontic preparation of curved root canals.