How to Save Your Teeth: Toxic-Free Preventive Dentistry by David Kennedy

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

A little lean on the information I was hoping for...but good enough.

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Absolutely misleading, April 16, 2014
By ANDREW

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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What you must know about dental health!, October 12, 2000
By Debbie Howell

A wonderfully concise book that challenges the misconceptions of the public regarding dental health. While the dental associations continue to shroud the truth, it is fantastic to know that there are dentists out there who are keeping up the fight to expose the profession with regard to its lies about fluoride and amalgam(MERCURY!)fillings. The dental associations also go out of their way to conceal the fact that cavities and jaw deformities are the direct results of inadequate nutrition. No-one need have another filling! This book is a good follow-on from the ideas first put forth by Dr Weston Price ('Nutrition and Physical Degeneracy') in the 1930s. A must read for parents, dentists, and everyone else!

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Our dental health bible, April 09, 2000
By Anna Sagdeeva

This book delivers what it claims to do: our whole family has achieved better dental hygiene and health through Dr.Kennedy's recommendations! Foremost, it gave us hope and confidence that we as patients can do a lot for our dental health. The book contains very detailed advice on dental hygiene (including that for children and people with gingevitis) and offers detailed explanation of various treatments for major dental ailments - with a stress on holistic practice (and its difference from the old-school one). Without it, my children would have had mercury amalgams; my mother would have gone through unnecessary surgery for her gingevitis and I would have received a major dental treatment on my amalgam-laden teeth during pregnancy! Thanks to the book (and its fantastic reference section) we have found a holistic dentist who helped my mother non-surgically fight her gingevitis and who advises us on every aspect of dental health, ensuring that we have the most gentle treatment and minimal intervention and rely largely on self-help measures. This book continues to help us and numerous other people! It is #1 in our health library.

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This book is fantastic for do it yourself dental health, June 14, 1999
By A customer

How To Save Your Teeth with Toxic Free Preventive Dentistry by David C. Kennedy, DDS ISBN #0-913571-06-2
You can stop dental disease and raise cavity free children with modern preventive dentistry. Gum disease is almost as common as the cold but far more serious. Silver/mercury fillings leak mercury and fluoride is a carcinogen. Simple, practical and direct solutions to these perplexing problems are available to everyone now!
How To Save Your Teeth synthesizes the current scientific knowledge of environmental health, preventive and environmental dentistry into a comprehensive self help program. Extensive diagrams and photographs illustrate the how-to concepts of personal care and make this an easy to read family reference book.
Five basic areas are covered.
1) How to raise children free from dental disease 2) How to stop or prevent adult gum disease 3) The documented science regarding mercury filling controversy 4) The undisputed facts about fluoride 5) Modern conservative non-toxic restorative dentistry
If you have decided to have a mercury filling removed, Dr. Kennedy strongly urges you to follow the entire "Patient Safety" protocol developed by the researchers and practitioners of the International Academy of Oral Medicine and Toxicology. You can find it on pages 84-86. Make a copy for your dentist or call one of the referral organizations in the appendix to find a dentist already familiar with the concepts in this book.
The referral appendix has a complete list of manufacturers and patient support organizations to help locate the necessary supplies. There are over 275 scientific references in the bibliography to help the interested reader find further information on these controversial subjects. This is the most comprehensive book on the market to assist health oriented consumers take the responsibility for their good dental health and find out about preventive dental health. Call(800) 728-3833 or Email davidkennedy-dds@home.com

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