Head of Prosthodontics and Graduate Training Centre for Oral, Clinical and Translational Sciences, Faculty of Dentistry, Oral & Craniofacial Sciences, King’s College London
David’s research is clinically focused and includes prevalence studies, laboratory investigations and clinical techniques to measure erosive tooth wear in the prosthodontics field. He has a wide range of experience in teaching undergraduate and postgraduate students. Over the past five years he has developed teaching in prosthodontics to make it more relevant to modern general dental practice. He was also instrumental in bringing teaching in implants to undergraduates, but at a level that is consistent with the expectations of dental students. Over the past 20 years, Bartlett has conducted three large prevalence studies and collaborated internationally to publish the only systematic reviews in the literature. In 2009 he published data from the study of 1,010 18-30 year olds together with an assessment of risk. More recently a Pan European study of more than 3’500 participants established the risk factors in erosion.