Renita Gail Bufford-Jones, DDS
Dr. Renita Gail Bufford-Jones is the first female African-American dentist from Hardeman County. She is a General Dentist with over 30 years in the dental profession, including work in dental hygiene, public health, private practice, and corrections.
Dr. Jones was born in Nashville, TN to Samuel and Barbara Bufford in 1963. She was raised in Whiteville, TN, and graduated from Bolivar Central High School in 1982. She is a proud HBCU alumna of both Tennessee State University and Meharry Medical College in Nashville, TN. After graduating in 1984 with an associate of science degree in Dental Hygiene, she worked part-time as a Registered Dental Hygienist in private practice from 1984-1992 while attending Meharry Medical College School of Dentistry. In 1992, she graduated with her Doctorate of Dental Surgery Dentistry degree and continued working at the private practice as an Associate Dentist providing emergency and routine services.
Jones returned to Whiteville in 1993 and worked at the Hardeman County Health Department in Bolivar, TN for the next six years providing general services to patients ages 2-20, in a public health setting.
In 1999, Dr. Jones left public health and began working in the area of corrections in Whiteville, providing general dentistry services to inmates in a 1500-bed facility.
In 2003, Dr. Jones started a private practice in Bolivar, the Bufford-Jones Family Dental Center, PC, treating patients in all aspects of general dentistry. Services included diagnosis, treatment planning, preventive, operative, prosthodontics, endodontics, and oral surgery procedures. She managed the front office as well as the clinical staff. Jones also worked as Contract Dentist at the Hardeman County Community Health Center providing dental services for patients who did not have dental insurance.
In 2010, she returned to practice in corrections and currently works at the Whiteville correctional facility.
Dr. Jones is married to Daniel Jones and is the mother of Daniel Isaiah (Constance) and Renita Danielle Jones and proud "Gigi" to grandson Kingston Samuel Jones.