Prof. Dr. David John Manton

David has spent nearly 40 years in private practice and academia and is currently a Professor of Paediatric Dentistry at the UMCG, University of Groningen and at ACTA in Amsterdam. He previously convened the specialist training program in paediatric dentistry at the University of Melbourne, and was chair of the postgraduate education and research committee. David is involved in several collaborative and postgraduate research projects in both paediatric dentistry and orthodontics. Graduated BDSc (Melb) in 1984 and worked in general practice until 1991 when he undertook an MDSc in Paediatric Dentistry. He was dental advisor to the Australian Federal Government from 1994 – 1996 and won the KG Sutherland Prize of the Royal Australasian College of Dental Surgeons in 2007. He is an associate editor of Caries Research and on the advisory panel (board) of the European Caries Research Association (ORCA). He is also a long term member of the editorial boards of the European Archives of Paediatric Dentistry and until recently the International Journal of Paediatric Dentistry. David is a past president of the IADR paediatric oral health research group.

Over the past 20 years David has spoken throughout Australia, Asia and Europe and has wide ranging research experience in Minimum Intervention Dentistry, caries remineralisation, especially CPP-ACP, the detection of carious lesions, developmental defects of enamel (especially MIH), resin infiltration of MIH lesions, and the use of calcium silicates in endodontics. He has published more than 170 manuscripts in peer-reviewed journals and according to Google scholar he has been cited more than 9000 times since 2019. He is currently supervising far too many PhD and masters student research projects.