Dr Nika Hrastovsek started her studies at the Medical faculty in Ljubljana, Slovenia. During the third year she selected Dentistry as the profession she wanted to focus on. She graduated in Dentistry in 2009 on top of her class as Doctor of Dental Medicine (DDM). She completed a year of internship before she was offered a job as a Teaching Assistant in Paediatric and Preventive Dentistry at the University of Ljubljana. During that time she tutored dental students in their fourth and fifth year and supervised their clinical work.