BDS (Adel), MB BS (Tas), FRACDS (OMS), Specialist Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeon
Dr Sunia T Vudiniabola is a male Specialist Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeon who speaks Fijian (as well as English).
Dr Vudiniabola was born in Fiji and grew up in Suva, where he completed his schooling before embarking on tertiary education in Australia. He trained in both Medicine and Dentistry and specialised in Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery. He studied undergraduate Dentistry at the University of Adelaide and Medicine at the University of Tasmania in Hobart. He completed advanced postgraduate training in Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery in Adelaide and passed the Fellowship examination for the Royal Australasian College of Dental Surgeons in Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery in 1998.
During his postgraduate training, Dr Vudiniabola also completed a Masters degree thesis on clinical and animal model research looking at the use of Hyperbaric Oxygen (breathing pure oxygen in a sealed pressurized chamber) in the management of non-healing bones (osteoradionecrosis) of the face following radiotherapy treatment for head and neck cancer.
Following completion of his specialist surgical training in 1996, Dr Vudiniabola worked as a Senior Lecturer and Consultant In Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery at the Fiji School of Medicine and the main General Hospital in Suva from 1997 to 2001.He has been in private specialist practice in Mornington, Victoria since 2002.
