Dr. Daena
Daena was born in Perth, Western Australia. At the age of three, she followed her parents to Singapore and stayed there for about 10 years. She found her passion in dentistry after high school, which found her she studying at La Trobe University. As part of her dentistry education, she went to different parts of regional Victoria for clinical placements: Bendigo, Mildura, and Ballarat.
Daena has a wide range of interests outside of dentistry. She reads widely, both fiction and non-fiction. She also loves crocheting and spends quite a substantial amount of her spare time doing all kinds of crocheting. During her high school days, she developed a liking for badminton and was part of the badminton school team. Recently, she has become fond of snowboarding. Although still very much a beginner, she has travelled to several snow resorts in different parts of the world for skateboarding: Mt Buller in Melbourne, Cardrona in Queenstown, New Zealand, and Hakuba, Japan.