Dr. Cherilyn Sheets maintains a full-time private practice in Newport Beach, California for prosthodontics and esthetic rehabilitative dentistry. She is an international educator, clinician, author, and researcher. Dr. Sheets has published over 100 peer-reviewed articles, chapters for textbooks, and given lecturers/hands on training to thousands of clinicians. She has been active in her Alma Mater, USC Herman Ostrow School of Dentistry, in various roles over the years since graduation, and holds numerous Fellowships in Dental Organizations.

Dr. Sheets is the Founder and Co-Executive Director of the Newport Coast Oral Facial Institute, a non-profit research and educational institute. She has co-invented InnerView Systems, a new dental diagnostic, and co-founded Perimetrics Inc. to house the 28 patents and bring the science of Quantitative Percussion Diagnostics (QPD) to the marketplace. She is a Past-President of both the American Association of Women Dentists and the American Academy of Esthetic Dentistry, as well as being involved in professional meeting planning for decades.

Some of her awards include the 2002 Gordon Christensen Award for Excellence in Lecturing, the 2004 USC School of Dentistry Alumnus of the Year Award, the 2006 Section Honor Award (Distinguished Dentist Award) from the California Section of the Pierre Fauchard International Honor Dental Academy, the 2008 Dr. Edward B. Shils Entrepreneurial Education Fund Award, and the 2023 American Academy of Esthetic Dentistry Charles L. Pincus/Ronald E. Goldstein Award of Excellence.

Dr. Sheets serves on numerous editorial boards of peer-reviewed journals. She is also the Founder of the Children’s Dental Center in Inglewood, California, a non-profit prototype dental center for providing multidisciplinary care to children of the working poor and was the Founding Chairman of the National Children’s Oral Health Foundation (“America’s Toothfairy”).