In 2011, Azim Malik graduated from the University of Birmingham, School of Dentistry. Malik worked in Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery posts at Basildon & Thurrock University Hospital and Broomfield Hospital in Essex.

Malik worked with Maxillofacial surgeons and gained experience in treating patients with wisdom teeth impactions; TMJ dysfunction; facial trauma; head/neck cancer and those requiring reconstructive surgery.

Malik passed his Membership of Faculty of Dental Surgeons exams in 2012 and was elected as a member of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh. He also successfully completed and passed the Diploma of Primary Care Dentistry examination at the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland in 2014.