Prof. Dr. Kaan Orhan graduated from Ankara University Faculty of Dentistry in 1998. Following his graduation, he started his doctorate program in the Department of Oral Diagnosis and Radiology of the same faculty. He was awarded a scholarship from the Japanese Ministry of Education (MONBUSHO) and did his doctorate studies in Japan's Osaka University, Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Radiology until 2002. Following his return, he received the title of PhD in Ankara University in 2003 and continued to work in the same unit as a specialist. In December 2006, Associate Professor. Dr. received the title. Since September 2007, he has been assigned to Near East University Faculty of Dentistry as the founder and head of the Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Radiology. In March 2012, Prof. Dr. Kaan Orhan, who received the title, is still working as an Oral, Dental and Maxillofacial Radiology specialist in the Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Radiology at Ankara University. Between 2018-2020, he was a researcher and visiting lecturer at the Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium.
Prof. Dr. Kaan Orhan has over 300 foreign articles and over 50 Turkish articles with over 3500 citations from these articles. Related expertise in many congresses took place in Turkey and in the world has been invited as a guest speaker. Providing important solids in the field of Maxillofacial Radiology, Prof. Dr. Kaan Orhan is on the Board of Directors of the European Association of Dentomaxillofacial Radiology (EADMFR), and was the President of the Research and Scientific Committee and the Presidency of the Same Association (2014-2016). He is also a member of the Scientific Research Committee of the World Dentomaxillofacial Radiology Association. Prof. Dr. Kaan Orhan works as an assistant editor in the referee board of "Oral Surgery Oral Medicine, Oral Pathology, Oral Radiol and Endod" within the scope of SCI related to his field and also in the journal "Radiology: Open Access" related to his field. In addition, he is a referee for nearly 50 local and foreign journals.
Prof. Dr. Kaan Orhan received the "Innovative Dentist of the Year" award in 2020 with his work titled Artificial Intelligence Application in Dentistry - Craniocatch. Lincoln R. Manson-Hing Honorable Mention Award, given by the American Maxillofacial Radiology Association in 2018 and 2019, and Ankara University Science Award in 2018, TDB Oral and Dental Health Second Prize in 2015, and the “52. Japanese Congress of DentoMaxillofacial Radiology ”in 2010,“ 12. European Congress of DentoMaxillofacial Radiology ”won the best work awards in 2008 and the poster of the“ European Society of Head and Neck Radiology ”congress in 2008, and the second prize. However, in 2008, he received the "Yoshida Manufacturing Award" at the "7. Asya Oral and Maxillofacial Radiology" congress.