ShoeboxDentist is the brainchild of Lori Anna Dees, DDS.  

Dr. Dees grew up in Texas.  In 1995 she graduated from The University of Texas at Austin with a Batchelor of Arts in Art History.  In 2000 she received her Doctor of Dental Surgery from Baylor College of Dentistry in Dallas.  Before starting her residency in endodontics, Dr. Dees worked in private practice in general dentistry for 2 years in the Dallas-Fort Worth area.  She received her Certificate of Endodontics from the Louisiana State University Health Science Center at New Orleans in 2004.  Since 2004 Dr. Dees has been in private practice as an endodontist in Dallas-Fort Worth. 

Dr. Dees is a member of the American Association of Endodontists, the American Dental Association, the Texas Dental Association, and the Dallas County Dental Society.

Dr. Dees owns two dental offices, Mesquite Endodontics, where she practices full-time, and Mockingbird Dental Group, which she manages.  

Currently, she is a 2015 MBA candidate at the Yale School of Management in the Leadership in Healthcare program.  

ShoeboxDentist is an independent study project, mentored by Professor Maureen Burke, who teaches at Yale School of Management  and Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies. Dr. Dees will get a grade on this project.  :-)

SCIENTIFIC PUBLICATIONS

(None of the inflammatory process research would have been possible without the mentorship of Dr. Robert Spears.)
Dees, L.A., Spears, R. Immunohistochemical analysis of IL-1 beta and TNF-alpha in adjuvant-induced inflammation of the rat TMJ. J Dent Res 79: 1416, 2000.

 

Dees, L.A., Sapozhnikov, M., Alaniz, G., and Spears, R. Adjuvant-induced inflammation of the rat TMJ results in altered levels of IL-1 beta and TNF-alpha. J Dent Res 78: 2903, 1999.

 

Alaniz, G., Sapozhnikov, M., Dees, LA, and Spears, R. Trigeminal neuropeptide Y levels in adjuvant-induced inflammation of the rat TMJ. J Dent Res 78: 2629, 1999.

 

Sapozhnikov, M. Dees, L.A., Alaniz, G. and Spears, R. The effects of anti-NGF administration in adjuvant-induced inflammation of the TMJ. J Dent Res 78: 2901, 1999.

 

Dees, L.A., Sapozhnikov, M., Louca, S., and Spears, R.  Adjuvant-induced inflammation of the rat TMJ results in increased levels of IL-1 beta and bradykinin. J Dent Res 77:908, 1998.

 

Sapozhnikov, M., Dees, L.A., Louca, S., Hutchins, B., Harper, R.P., Spears, R. NGF and CGRP levels are altered in adjuvant-induced inflammation of the rat TMJ.  J Dent Res 77:909, 1998.

OTHER PUBLICATIONS

Dees, Lori Anna. “The Endodontic SOAP.” Published in the Fall 2011 issue of the New Mexico Dental Journal, 2011.

 

Dees, Lori Anna. “Before We Were Created Equally: The Story of Lucy Hobbs Taylor, DDS”.  J of the History of Dentistry 49, No. 3: p105-110, November 2001.