About the Doctor
Robert S. Sears, D.D.S.
Diplomate by the American Board of Special Care Dentistry.
Dr. Robert S. Sears was raised in Baltimore, Maryland, and graduated from Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio in 1971. He received his D.D.S. degree from the University of Maryland in Baltimore in 1975.
Dr. Sears completed a general practice residency at the Baltimore City Hospital in 1976, and completed his pediatric specialty training at the Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh in 1978. Dr. Sears has practiced in Northern Virginia since 1978, and is licensed by the State Boards of Dentistry in Virginia, Maryland, Pennsylvania and New York.
He completed his Specialty Board Certification Examinations in Pediatric Dentistry in 1988 and he successfully sat for the membership examinations in Special Needs Dentistry at the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh in 2004. Dr. Sears is recognized as a Diplomate by the American Board of Special Care Dentistry.
He served as a clinical assistant professor in the Department of Occlusion at Georgetown University School of Dentistry from 1982 until 1986. He was appointed as a consultant to the American Board of Pediatric Dentistry, in the Section of Interceptive Orthodontics and Growth and Development, serving from 1992 until 1994.
Dr. Sears currently serves on the medical staff of the Montefiore Hospital, Albert Einstein School of Medicine, in the Bronx, New York, where he conducts clinical trials of the Right Force bracket system, and teaches age-appropriate orthodontics to the orthodontic residents.
He is a member of the active staff at the Reston Hospital Center, in Reston, Virginia, where he has been the section chief of Oral Surgery since 1989. Dr. Sears is also on the staff of the Inova Fairfax and Inova Fair Oaks Hospitals. He is the executive vice-president of Right Force Orthodontics, Inc., where he is in charge of the Clinical Research and Development program.
Dr. Sears and his family have lived in Northern Virginia since 1978. His favorite pastimes include reading and music.