In 1987, Dr Robert Walker graduated from Chiropractic College in the USA. Whilst in Chiropractic school, Dr. Walker also studied various Cranial manipulation techniques and Visceral treatment approaches.
To this knowledge, he added his previous extensive background in Biology, Physiology, Biochemistry, Toxicology, Nutrition and Physiological Psychology.
Once in practice and faced with many difficult headache and pain patients, he found huge gaps of knowledge in the education of both Chiropractors and Dentists, as well as the entire Medical profession. The Chiropractic schools, while stressing body Biomechanics and neurology, had ignored the craniomandibular system and the importance of proper dental occlusion. The Dental schools had missed the importance of overall body posture and organ function, especially as it relates to head posture and occlusion. He also realized that the cranial system and Nutrition were almost totally ignored in both fields at the undergraduate level.
So he set out to acquire further knowledge in the fields of Cranial mechanics, TMJ and Dental Orthopedics. This included study under such renowned Dental clinicians as Merl Bean, Derek Mahony, Jim Broadbent, Terry Spahl, Brendan Stack, Ralph Garcia, Skip Truitt, John Witzig, Bill Clarke, and Jay Gerber.
He also studied various Cranial manipulation techniques from many renowned Doctors including Dr’s DeJarnette, Upledger, Denton, Pick, Goodheart and Rees.
Since 1987, Dr. Walker has been developing and teaching Chirodontics™ to a global audience. He teaches a multidisciplinary approach to Health, Head pain and TMD, utilizing Chiropractic, Dental Orthopaedics, Cosmetic Dentistry, Nutrition and Cranial Orthopedic manipulation techniques.
Robert Walker DC is an internationally known clinician and teacher.
He has been a keynote speaker for the American Association of Functional Orthodontics, The Academy of Comprehensive Aesthetics, The Clinical Foundation of Orthopedics and Orthodontics, American Association of Gnathological Orthopedics, Sacro-Occipital Resource Society International, The British Chiropractic Association, and the Australian Dento-Facial Symposiums.
In studying, mastering and merging these once diverse fields, Dr Walker has built some of the most important intellectual bridges of the 20th century in the understanding of the human body. He has explored its interactive nature and developed a system of treatment involving these areas of Body mechanics, Dental Orthopaedics and Clinical Nutrition.
And now he has teamed up with an outstanding dental clinician, Kaye McArthur DDS, to bring you a whole new approach to Dental analysis and treatment! We are very proud and excited to bring you this Exceptional Dental course series.
Dr Kaye McArthur
On leaving school Dr Kaye origionally wanted to be a Plastic Surgeon, So it came as no surprise when she graduated from Otago University New Zealand in 1988 at age 22 years, with a dental degree that it would be the feild of Cosmetic Dentistry to which she was attracted.
In 1995 after the death of her mother from Breast Cancer, In addition to Cosmetic Dentistry, Dr Kaye persued other interests in Environmental connections to Medicine and Health, and Anthropology. The result was a Cosmetic Dentist who became very aware there was alot more to Cosmetic Dentistry than just creating beautiful smiles and that what we as dentists did in peoples mouths, especially when changing bites affected not only the TM joints, and Skeletal and Neuro Muscular system of the neck and head, but in many cases the rest of the body and overall health as well.
Dr Kaye is currently The Director of "Exceptional Dental " -A Cosmetic Restorative Practice on Australias beautiful Gold Coast Beaches. "Exceptional Dental" has its own In House Dental Training Facility. It was at Exceptional Dental in Australia In 2003 that Dr McArthur and Dr Walker introduced the first of the Exceptional Dental Course series which they would later improve and take internationally to Usa Canada, Europe and Asia to much aclaim.
After first meeting Dr Walker in 1999, Dr Kaye combined her knowledge of Environmental Health and Cosmetic and Restorative Dentistry with his Chirodontic-paradigm and Chiropractic knowledge and together they have solved many of the everyday problems faced by Cosmetic, Restorative, Orthopaedic and Orthodontic Dentists the world over and helped bridge huge gaps in the current knowledge and many approaches to occlusion and occlusal dogmas.
Dr Kaye is one of the few Australian Active Members of the AACD (American Academy of Cosmetic Dentistry), ACE (Academy of Comprehensive Aesthetics) AAFO (American Academy of Functional Orthodontics) and many other organisations for the advancement of dental knowledge. When not teaching or attending courses or seminars world wide, can be found working at Exceptional Dental as a "wet finger" dentist changing smiles and lives of her many satisfied clients. As well as running Exceptional Dental Courses, she also consults and instructs in Chirodontics and for Zebris -supplier of Dental Computer diagnostic equipment and to many individuals and organisations involved in creating beautiful smiles with a stable healthy occlusion and cranial system. In addition to her passion for Cosmetic Dentistry, Dr Kaye has a well rounded education in orthopaedics, orthodontics and Invisalign techniques and enjoys using this knowledge to enhance her case results.
She considers herself lucky to work with an amazing support team, and gives special mention and sincere thanks to her wonderful lab technician -Mr Yugo Hatai, without whose incredible ceramic skills and parallel approach to learning and achieving perfection in all cases, her job satisfaction would not be as it is. Yugo is currently completing his LVI Mastership and is about to publish a case recently done by himself and Dr Kaye in the LVI Visions magazine.
