{"id":34186,"date":"2011-05-24T07:08:12","date_gmt":"2011-05-24T04:08:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.turkishforum.com.tr\/en\/content\/?p=34186"},"modified":"2014-01-06T02:00:22","modified_gmt":"2014-01-06T00:00:22","slug":"turkeys-first-domestic-dental-implants-on-their-way","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/2011\/05\/24\/turkeys-first-domestic-dental-implants-on-their-way\/","title":{"rendered":"Turkey\u2019s first domestic dental implants on their way"},"content":{"rendered":"

TU\u011eBA YARDIMCI MISIR<\/p>\n

TRABZON – Anatolia News Agency<\/p>\n

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G\u00f6rkem Ser\u00e7e, the general director of AGS, says the company's implant production facility will be active by this fall. AA photo<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Turkey\u2019s AGS Medikal \u00dcr\u00fcnleri, a medical company, is preparing to produce dental implants in the Black Sea province of Trabzon, as the company invested 5 million Turkish Liras in the business as a startup.<\/p>\n

The construction work for the production facility in an industrial zone in Be\u015fikd\u00fcz\u00fc town in Trabzon was launched in April, said G\u00f6rkem Ser\u00e7e, the general director of the company.<\/p>\n

\u201cTurkey is dependent on foreign countries for dental implants and we aim to save the country from this condition,\u201d Ser\u00e7e told the Anatolia news agency.<\/p>\n

The test production for \u201cimplast,\u201d the first domestic implant, has started and the product will be on the market by October, he said.<\/p>\n

Turkey is to become the eighth implant producer country across the world. The other counties are Germany, Switzerland, the U.S., Italy, South Korea, Israel and France.<\/p>\n

The initial aim is to reduce the number of important implants and the company wants to become en exporter in the long term, the general director said.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe plan to export goods to neighboring countries. Initial targets are Azerbaijan, Iran, Iraq and Bulgaria. Besides, we have business ties with Italy. We will launch exports in the fall.\u201d<\/p>\n

Annual implant consumption in Turkey is around 200,000. “This figure is 3.5 million in Japan, 2 million in Spain, 1.5 million in Germany and 1 million in Italy,\u201d Ser\u00e7e said.<\/p>\n

The domestic companies in South Korea dominate the market with a 70 percent share, he added. \u201cA similar thing will happen in Turkey,\u201d he said, telling that local production is to increase local consumption up to 1 million a year.<\/p>\n

The investment size is to grow constantly, according to Ser\u00e7e. The final goal of AGS is to hit 15 million liras.<\/p>\n

As the production of implants was high technology-based, the number of employees would be few, he said. Still, the business is to start with a staff of 25 and to reach 50 as the further investments are realized.<\/p>\n

via Turkey\u2019s first domestic dental implants on their way – Hurriyet Daily News and Economic Review<\/span>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

TU\u011eBA YARDIMCI MISIR TRABZON – Anatolia News Agency Turkey\u2019s AGS Medikal \u00dcr\u00fcnleri, a medical company, is preparing to produce dental implants in the Black Sea province of Trabzon, as the company invested 5 million Turkish Liras in the business as a startup. The construction work for the production facility in an industrial zone in Be\u015fikd\u00fcz\u00fc […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":83,"featured_media":34188,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[846],"tags":[5622,5623,5621],"class_list":["post-34186","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-ags","tag-dental-implant-manufacturing","tag-implant"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34186","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/83"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34186"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34186\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34188"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}