Olugbenga Efe Ukiri is a native of Effurun in uvwie Local Government of Delta State. He was born in the then prestigious Island Maternity Hospital Broad Street Lagos and was raised in surulere on the mainland. He attended Santa Maria Private schools in Adamu Orisa st of Adeniran Ogunsanya for his nursery education and later went on to Santa Maria Private school for the first two years of his primary education and later switched to Rabiatu Thompson Primary school for the rest of his primary education due to the policy of the Lagos state government then not to admit into secondary schools students from private schools.

He later went on to Ansar Ud Deen secondary school, 73 Randle Avenue, Surulere for his secondary education. It was in secondary school he made friends with a lot of people he still calls brothers and sisters till date.

He attended school of Dentistry, College of Medicine of the University of Benin, Ugbowo, Benin city, Edo

State for his undergraduate studies in Dental Surgery. His foray into Dentistry was born out of curiosity and his love for everything related to biology.

After graduating with a degree in dental surgery in 2000, Olugbenga proceeded to the Lagos dental Centre for his one-year compulsory internship program gaining experience and skills in all departments of Dentistry and that was from where he picked interest in Restorative and Cosmetic Dentistry.

His one-year compulsory service to his fatherland through the National Youth Service Commission was done in Borno state at the department of Dental Surgery of the University of Maiduguri Teaching Hospital. Here he earned skills in accident and emergency unit sub division oral and maxillofacial surgery where he was able to attend and give first aid to accident victims with maxillofacial injuries.

On completion of NYSC in Borno, Dr. Ukiri returned to Lagos and worked with various private dental practices as an associate dental surgeon.

In the year 2009, Olugbenga decided to have a break from clinical Dentistry due to his adventurous nature. He, therefore, proceeded for postgraduate studies in public health at the school of the health of the University of Wolverhampton, West Midlands, United Kingdom.

He returned to Nigeria in 2011 and quickly got a place as an associate dental surgeon to jump start a dental practice for a professor of Dentistry, this he did successfully.

By the year 2013, he decided to go solo and that gave birth to Blissfield Dental Clinic located in Alagomeji, Yaba, Lagos. 

He has thus nurtured Blissfield Dental Clinic de novo into what it is today.

Dr. Olugbenga Efe Ukiri is happily married and resides on the mainland of Lagos. 

He is interested in swimming, reading, current affairs and he is very adventurous.

He is a Christian and proudly a Nigerian.