This seminar is for those dentists and other physical and manual therapy healthcare practitioners who are or planning on treating patients who have multifactorial complex disorders involving structures of the head, neck, face, and teeth that wish to provide an alternative method to what I call, – ‘provisional palliative patchwork patient care’.

My purpose is to provide evidence that I have found to those clinicians who attend that many of the current patient care methods being taught and used are ineffective in resolving multifactorial complex disorders involving the structure, function and neurological behavior of the stomatognathic system, often referred to as the masticatory system, or chewing mechanism.

There are occasions when some people have gone to their dentists seeking help for ‘difficulties’ they were having with their chewing mechanism and didn’t get it. Their teeth may have looked all right, but the rest of their masticatory system may not have been functioning very well. What might have happened was they couldn’t find help because the dentists they sought help from didn’t know how biomechanical postural structural neurological functional disorders of the head, upper cervical spine, neurocranium, cranial dura mater, cranial sutures, brain, brain stem, cranial nerves, and structures of other parts of the body including the feet could affect disorders involving various structural, functional, and neurological components of the stomatognathic system including the teeth and vice versa. It’s because they have never been taught there is a connection between them.

We really can’t blame those dentists because of what they don’t know or weren’t taught in dental school, or can we? Reality is, they just don’t know, and they’re not alone. I know because I have been a constant student in this field of health care for over 45 years.