After completing her degree in Dentistry from the University of Birmingham in 2015, Dima was appointed as a hospital dentist at Manchester Dental Hospital where she gained skills across a number of different specialities. Dima completed her Membership of the Faculty of Dental Surgery exams in 2017 and then went on to work in Oral & Maxillofacial surgery at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham followed by a Paediatric & Orthodontic post in Glasgow Dental Hospital and NHS Lanarkshire. Dima then began her 3-year full-time speciality training programme working as a registrar in Orthodontics at the Royal Liverpool Hospital and successfully completed her MOrth exams with the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh. Dima has also undertaken a Masters in Clinical Research for which she was awarded a distinction. She has presented her research nationally and internationally and is a successful author of two books.