Prof. David John Manton BDSc MDSc PhD FRACDS FICD FADI FPFA
Paediatric Dentistry and Cariology
Centrum van Tandheelkunde en Mondzorgkunde
Universitair Medisch Centrum Groningen
The University of Groningen

David has spent more than 30 years in private practice and academia and is currently professor of paediatric dentistry and cariology at the centre for dentistry and oral health at UMCG, University of Groningen, the Netherlands. Until 2019 he was the Elsdon Storey Chair of Child Dental Health at the University of Melbourne and a visiting consultant at the Royal Children’s Hospital, Melbourne. He is involved in several collaborative and postgraduate research projects in both paediatric dentistry, cariology 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 Federal Government from 1994 – 1996 and won the KG Sutherland Prize of the RACDS in 2007. He is on the editorial boards of the European Archives on Paediatric Dentistry and the International Journal of Paediatric Dentistry, and the advisory panel (board) of the European Caries Research Association (ORCA).

Over the past 15 years David has spoken throughout Australia, Asia and Europe and has wide ranging experience in laboratory, in situ and clinical trials of CPP-ACP, Developmental Defects of Enamel, Minimum Intervention Dentistry, the detection of carious lesions, and the use of calcium silicates in endodontics. He has published more than 120 manuscripts in peer-reviewed journals and has been cited more than 3400 times since 2015.