Dr Langley Tasmania completed his Bachelor in Dental Surgery (BDS) qualification at the Fiji School of Medicine in 2004. He returned to Niue Island to take up a Dental Officer’s posting in the only dental clinic on the island, working as a general practitioner for 5 years. Dr Tasmania went on to pursue postgraduate studies at the University of Otago starting in 2010 and completing a Doctor in Clinical Dentistry, specializing in Endodontics in 2012. His research topic was “Contact guidance of endodontic pathogens on micro-grooved polymethylmethacrylate discs”. Dr Tasmania took up part-time private work and contributed back to the University of Otago as a clinical tutor at the dental school from 2013 to early 2015. He has spent most of 2015 in private practice in Canberra, where he still continues to practice on a part-time basis.