Dr. Ball was raised in Midwestern Saskatchewan. She obtained her dental degree, D.M.D. with Distinction, in 1997 from the University of Saskatchewan. During her 8 years as a general dentist she had the opportunity to work on Vancouver Island, in the United Arab Emirates, and in Pitt Meadows, B.C. In 2005 she entered the Graduate Orthodontic Program at the University of Toronto, where she also taught in the Radiology and Orthodontic Undergraduate Dental Clinics. She obtained her Masters of Science in Orthodontics and her Fellowship with the Royal College of Dentists of Canada in 2008. She has been living and working in Squamish B.C. ever since. Her research on growth and development of the mandible has been published in the American Journal of Orthodontics and Dentofacial Orthopedics.