Collaborators
Professor Richard Welbury
Professor Richard Welbury MB BS BDS PhD FDS RCS FDS RCPS FRCPCH. Richard was born in Morpeth, Northumberland and qualified in dentistry (1978) and medicine (1984) from the University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne. He was appointed as MRC Research Associate in the Department of Child Dental Health in Newcastle in 1985 and gained his PhD in 1989. In 1991 he was appointed Regional Consultant/Senior Clinical Lecturer in Newcastle before moving to Glasgow in 2001 as Professor of Paediatric Dentistry. He is currently Director of Postgraduate Education and Dean–elect of the Dental Faculty of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow. His fields of research are primarily in the durability of restorations, dental traumatology, including the role of the dental practitioner in child protection, anxiety and behavioural management, and the medically compromised child. He has authored five textbooks and over 100 scientific publications. The textbook ‘Paediatric Dentistry’ is now the standard text in all UK and Ireland Dental schools and has been translated into Portuguese, Turkish, and Russian. In 2001-2002 he was President of the British Society of Paediatric Dentistry, and from 2006 to 2008 he was the President of the European Academy of Paediatric Dentistry. Richard’s role is an advisory one on the design and the implementations of the clinical trials. He is the lead author in three Randomised Controlled Trial’s concerning the durability of dental materials using a split mouth design in the paediatric dental literature.
