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How to Save Your Teeth: Toxic-Free Preventive Dentistry
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February 1, 1996 |
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 Unethical practices, November 03, 2016
By Cassiel (0)
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Negative reviews being deleted, and the dentist's views are important regardless of whether or not people have read the book. Recommending dangerous surgery, no amalgam fillings, and no fluoride is dangerous advice that would prevent many from buying this book.
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 Four Stars, July 25, 2016
By Eilene
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Good book.
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The evidence and science presented in this book is marginal at its best and clearly misleading, May 11, 2015
By akabar (0)
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It is very disappointing to see someone who should be devoted to serving and protecting his patients as a dentist clearly selling what amounts to snake oil in an attempt to make a quick buck. The evidence and science presented in this book is marginal at its best and clearly misleading. It's easy to tell people to ignore what is proven to work if you can sell books doing it.
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 but good enough., November 20, 2014
By starwarsfever
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A little lean on the information I was hoping for...but good enough.
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Absolutely misleading, April 16, 2014
By ANDREW (0)
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Please do not be fooled by the snake oil this book is selling. The dentist who wrote this is in direct violation of the American Dental Associations code of ethics.
1) Preventative dentistry is the key to a life with a natural dentition. The best prevention of caries that has been developed is fluoride which strengthens the tooth enamel and has NO health side effects when correctly dosed.
2) Amalgam fillings are perfectly safe for everyone and provide the best seal of the filling to tooth junction. The silver in the filling (yes the "mercury" fillings this book speaks of are mainly comprised of silver) corrodes the edge of the fillings shut over weeks the same way your silverware tarnishes. This leaves an impenetrable edge at the interface of the filling and tooth.
3) The white fillings either release flouride (glass ionomer) or contain bisphenol A.... Neither of which will harm you but both of which have their own pseudoscience stigma.
Please listen to your dentist and not some guy trying to sell you a book based on shock and awe
-Andrew Van Sicklen DDS
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Complicated, Tool Intensive, April 23, 2013
By G. Charles Steiner
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I'm a man who already knows the dangers of fluoride and mercury. My purpose for reading the book was simple: I wanted to be self-empowered to take care of my own teeth and their health and not rely on a dentist since I don't have health insurance.
To that end, this book only meets me or my purpose half-way. David Kennedy, D.D.S. is very authoritative and he's not about to give up his power as a dentist, so there are a lot of admonitions to the reader to see a dentist regularly - despite the good advice he proffers in order to "save" your teeth -- although the kind of dentist he wants you to see is one like him. In addition, the advice he offers is tool-intenstive and complicated. To save your teeth, you will need to own, use and maintain a Bass brush, a Proxabrush, a Water Pik Pick Pocket, an Interplak or Rotadent electric toothbrush, and then you will also need an empty quarter bottle or blender, baking soda, salt, apple cider vinegar and 3% hydrogen proxide, learning all the instructions in how to use these tools and how to blend these ingredients into a paste, as well as learning the Bass method for how to brush your teeth for two minutes twice a day. Oh: I forgot: And there's also supplements he wants you to buy and consume: glutathione before breakfast (50 mg), glutathione after breakfast (100 mg), methionine (500 mg), amino acid complex, zinc, selenium, magnesium, Vitamin B1 (50 mg), B Complex, Pantothenic acid (100 mg), Vitamin C, Vitamin E, Acidophilus, cultured milk, fiber, and sulfur foods. Many of these supplements need to be taken three times a day!
The only self-empowering information for saving your own teeth from having to be examined by a dentist is found in the few short pages between 56 and 67. The remaining pages are devoted to extensive discussion about gum disease, tooth decay, mercury and fluoride. This is good stuff if you are clueless and still think fluoride is good for your dental health and that dentists give mercury fillings because they are safe. Otherwise, the information is repetitive and there's nothing cutting-edge there.
However, I do want to say that as general information, I learned from Dr. Kennedy that tartar-control toothpaste is very, very bad for your teeth. I did not know that before, although I've never bought any tartar-control toothpaste since it only comes with fluoride in it. And baking soda, salt and 3% hydrogen peroxide make for a very simple, affordable toothpaste that will kill bacteria, and apple cider vinegar makes a very good anti-bacterial mouthwash. I liked learning these things which are so easily do-able and uncomplicated.
All the assertions Dr. Kennedy makes about mercury, fluoride and gum disease are well-documented with footnotes at the back of the book. Dr. Kennedy is not your scam-artist "alternative therapy" dentist who believes in "vibrations," although he does advocate a vegetarian diet based on grains, vegetables and fruit only. From the short list, I think you can see his view of nutrition is very limited and opinionated. But he also provides an extensive appendix in the back of the book for products to be purchased and used for saving your teeth and books to be read for further information.
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