Tina Leban was born in Nova Gorica. In 1997, she began her studies at the Faculty of Medicine, University of Ljubljana, and graduated in March 2004. She began working at the Celje Health Center, and after becoming a specialist in paediatric dentistry in 2014, she was invited to join the Department of Paediatric and Preventive Dentistry at the Faculty of Medicine, University of Ljubljana, where she still works. In the 2023/24 academic year, she completed an interdisciplinary doctoral programme in Genetics. In her clinical work, she primarily focuses on hereditary developmental enamel defects. She has published several professional articles and actively participates in numerous national and international scientific meetings. She is an associate member of the Section of Pedodontists of the Slovenian Medical Association and the European Academy of Paediatric Dentistry.