Dent was born in Warragul Victoria, and educated at Warragul High School and Wesley College, Melbourne before being admitted to study Medicine at Melbourne University, initially at Queen's College.
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Returning to Australia in 1995, he became a member of the Australasian College of Tropical Medicine, was admitted as a Fellow of the Australasian College of Emergency Medicine and became Director of Emergency at St Vincent's Hospital, Melbourne.
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In 2008 Dent’s contributions were recognized with an Order of Australia on the Queens Birthday, one day before his death.
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Born one of five siblings, Dent met Blandine Janot (daughter of French constitutional lawyer and statesman Raymond Janot) while living as a guest worker on a kibbutz in Israel in 1977.
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