He worked in private practice for more than 37 years of his life along with being on the clinical faculty in the orthodontic department at the University of Washington.
This education when combined with clinical teaching opened a number of opportunities in serving the specialty of orthodontics.
Although this effort was a well-meaning attempt by the national president to involve young members, it failed to make many useful changes in the larger organization.
This journalistic experience allowed Turpin to move up to a more broadly respected publication, The Angle Orthodontist, where he served on the board and was the editor from 1988 to 1999.
Additional positions held in the Department of Orthodontics at the University of Washington included being named the Moore/Riedel Professor from 2010 until 2019.