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Dr. Barbara Bulla is an oral surgeon and dentist from Austria. She studied dentistry and general medicine at the Medical University of Vienna, the country's most prestigious university. With her dual degree in dentistry and general medicine, Dr. Bulla is able to facilitate a holistic and greater overall picture of her patients' oral health through combining traditional dental knowledge with a comprehensive understanding of the human body's processes.

Her broad work expertise includes close collaborations with Austria's leading maxillofacial surgeons that have helped her develop the academic and surgical skills that she utilizes today in both her research and her practice. However, Dr. Bulla 's area of expertise is on the impact of HIV in dentistry, and how oral health treatments should be approached on patients with the disease. Her interest in this particular subject began she was working with an HIV specialist during her studies at the university. Dr. Bulla decided to specialize in the particular care of patients living with HIV or AIDS after seeing how neglected this field of practical medicine was in her field in both the number of specialists and the amount of relevant research.

She has since conducted substantial studies and contributed much to the development of this specialization both locally and internationally. She was named as the head HIV Specialist at one of Vienna's renowned clinics where she consults health professionals about the proper procedures to undergo while dealing with HIV patients.