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Roger B. Parkes, D.M.D., M.S.D. was born in Memphis, TN, and reared in Jackson, a graduate of St. Joseph High School. He attended Ole Miss on a football scholarship, graduating in 1974. He was accepted into the first class at the University of Mississippi School of Dentistry and received his dental doctorate in 1979. Influenced by the first dean of the Dental School, Dr. Wallace V. Mann, he chose to pursue a specialty degree in periodontics. He was accepted into the 1979 graduate periodontics class at Baylor College of Dentistry in Dallas, TX, and received his Masters of Science in Dentistry in the fall of 1981.

Dr. Parkes has been in private practice of periodontics since 1981 and is on the staff of three Jackson area hospitals. Dr. Parkes is a former assistant professor at the University of Mississippi School of Dentistry. He is a member of the American Academy of Periodontology, the American Dental Association and is past president of the Mississippi Association of Periodontists and the Jackson Dental Society.