David J. Manton (BDSc MDSc PhD) is currently working as a Professor of Paediatric Dentistry at the University of Groningen, Centre for Dentistry and Oral Hygiene. Previously, 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 post-graduate research projects in paediatric dentistry, cariology, and orthodontics. He was a dental adviser to the Australian Federal Government from 1994 to 1996 and won the KG Sutherland Prize of the RACDS in 2007. He is an associate editor of Caries Research and also on the editorial boards of the European Archives on Paediatric Dentistry and the International Journal of Paediatric Dentistry. David is a long-term member of the advisory panel (board) of the European Caries Research Association (ORCA). Over the past 20 years, David has spoken throughout Australia, Asia, and Europe and has wide-ranging experience in the 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.