Dr. Davis is a cum laude graduate of Wofford College and received her D.M.D. degree from the Medical University of South Carolina. She pursued graduate training in prosthodontics at the University of Iowa where she received her certification and master's degree in prosthodontics. She joined the faculty at Ohio State University where she taught and practiced from 1989 to 1992. Dr. Davis completed her fellowship training in maxillofacial prosthodontics at M.D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, Texas, followed by a maxillofacial prosthetic/implant residency at UCLA Maxillofacial Prosthetic Clinic under the direction of Dr. John Beumer. She returned to her home state of South Carolina in 1994 to develop the MUSC maxillofacial prosthodontic clinic.