Dear readers,

We are here with the first issue of the new year. As we mentioned in our previous issue, we would be here with 6 issues in 2022. On this occasion, we will bring you more research articles. Although the increasing demand recently and the high number of articles sent to us make us happy, they have increased our rejection rates. In order to be able to publish more of your articles, we rearranged the number of our publications as every two months and increased our annual number of publications to 6 issues. In addition, we will have 2 special issues. As a university, we attach great importance to the participation of our students in scientific studies and turning of their studies to publications. One of these issues will be consisted of the studies presented in our university student congress. Our other issue, as I have announced before, will be technology-oriented and will cover studies on scientific technology. I would like to remind you that if you have existing patents, there will be an opportunity to publish them.

We chose the cover art for this issue from the article titled “Cardiac Calcified Amorphous Tumor Presenting with Thromboembolism in a Patient Under Apixaban Treatment” by Çınar T. and his colleagues. If you have original images, we both publish them and choose one of them for our cover.

We are very happy to be together once again with beautiful topics in this issue. “Correlation of Body Composition Analysis with Anthropometric Measurements in Peritoneal Dialysis Patients” by Artan et al., “Investigation of The Effectiveness of Plant Based Algan Hemostatic Agent in a Rat Model of Femoral Arterial Bleeding” by Ekici, and “Evaluation of Patients’ Awareness Levels Regarding Implant And Implant-Supported Prosthesis Who were Admitted to Bezmialem Vakıf University Faculty of Dentistry” by Davut et. are our featured articles in this issue.

Dear readers,

Scientific developments continue to be a beacon of hope against the negativities experienced in the world. We understand once again that it is important to continue scientific studies even during periods of widespread disease and pandemic, and that scientific solutions to problems must be found. This pandemic period has once again proven that science without evidence is worthless. We must continue and we do continue our educational and scientific studies for the coming days and a livable world.

On this occasion, I congratulate your New Year and wish it to be a blessing for our country and our world. All the best, see you again in our next issue.

Best regards,

Prof. Dr. Adem AKCAKAYA
Editor-in-Chief