Having obtained her PhD in pediatric dentistry in 2002 professor Sera Derelioglu has been studying in the treatment and prevention of ECC and giving lectures for almost 25 years. At present, she is the head of Pedodontics Department, Faculty of Dentistry in Ataturk University. She conducted and/or participated in several clinical and epidemiological studies on ECC throughout both her PhD training and academic life. She also supervised numerous thesis studies conducted on the management of ECC, its etiology, its impact on the permanent dentition, and on quality of life and growth development . She is the coauthor of the Turkey chapter of a book titled as “A Compendium on Oral Health of Children around the World: Early Childhood Caries”. She is currently working on a national health project for the prevention of ECC in coordination with public health and primary care physicians, pediatricians, midwifes and nurses.