Vimal graduated from Chennai, India with Bachelor of Dental Surgery in 2002 and worked as a General Dental Practitioner at his own surgery in Kochi, India. In 2005, he decided to go for post graduation in Hygiene, Preventive Medicine and Epidemiology at Charles University in Prague, Faculty of Medicine in Hradec Kralove, Czech Republic. After returning to India, he joined Dental school as a lecturer. Apart from lecturing on Preventive Dentistry, he had the opportunity to improve his clinical skills here. In 2011, he was offered a job as a Research Associate at King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. He published several papers in both national and international journals during his tenure of 6 years at King Saud University.