Daniele Manfredini

Daniele Manfredini received his DDS from the University of Pisa, Italy in 1999, the obtaining aa MSc in Occlusion and Craniomandibular Disorders from the same University, a PhD in Dentistry from the ACTA Amsterdam, The Netherlands, and a Post-Graduation Specialty in Orthodontics from the University of Ferrara, Italy. He achieved the Diplomate Status from the American Board of Orofacial Pain in 2021. He is the lifetime President of the Italian Study Group on Orofacial Pain (GSID).

From 2006 to 2016, Daniele Manfredini has been Assistant Professor at the School of Dentistry, Department of Maxillofacial Surgery, University of Padova, Italy

On January 2017, the Italian Ministry of University and Research (MIUR) appointed him as a Full Professor by scientific merit at the age of 41.

Since 2017, Daniele Manfredini has served as Professor at the School of Dentistry, Department of Medical Biotechnologies, University of Siena, Italy, where he holds teachings in Oral Physiology and in Clinical Gnathology. He is currently the Director of the Orofacial Pain Unit.

Daniele Manfredini authored more than 300 papers in journals indexed in the Medline and Scopus databases (Scopus H-index=63). He edited and co-authored several textbooks.

In November 2013, Prof. Manfredini was ranked as world #1 expert in the field of temporomandibular joint disorders (Expertscape, Science LeadR), and since then he has always been included in the top three experts in the field. Since November 2018, he has also been indicated by the same agencies as #1 in the field of bruxism, and he has maintained a top three position thereafter.

Since 2018, Daniele Manfredini is Member and Coordinator of the Bruxism Consensus Panel within the International Association for Dental Research, for which he currently serves in the INfORM Board of Directors.

Since January 1st, 2024, Daniele Manfredini acts as the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Craniomandibular and Sleep Practice.