Meet Dr. Anne Dodds

Dr. Anne Dodds was born in Lagos, West Africa. When she was three years old, her family moved to Perth, Scotland where she spent the majority of her childhood.  She graduated from the University Of Edinburgh School Of Dentistry in 1982, receiving her UK dental degree.  In 1987, she moved to San Antonio, Texas where she received her Masters in Public Health from the University of Texas at San Antonio.  It was there that she was awarded a Dentist-Scientist Award from the National Institutes of Health, earned a PhD in Molecular Biology and completed her Residency in Pediatric Dentistry, graduating in 2000.  In 2008, after working as a full-time faculty member at the UNC School of Dentistry in Chapel Hill, she went on to graduate from the DDS program with her US Dental Degree.

After graduation, she and her family moved to the Fayetteville area where she began working with Village Family Dental.  Dr. Dodds is a member of the American Academy of Pediatric Dentistry, the American Dental Association and the North Carolina Dental Association.  She has staff privileges at both Highsmith Rainey Hospital in Fayetteville and Southeastern Regional Medical Center in Lumberton.  She is also involved in the Fayetteville Downtown Alliance.

What Dr. Dodds enjoys most about her job is being able to touch people’s lives by treating children no one else has been able to help.  She currently lives in Morrisville, NC with her husband, Roger who is a software engineer with a multinational company.  Their daughter, Katie, is a marine biologist and they have two dogs Heather (a golden retriever) and Ollie (a golden retriever mix).  In her spare time Dr. Dodds enjoys gardening, sewing, walking her dogs and traveling.