Confessions of a Dentist

I am so sorry that my profession is ignorant and causing so much harm to others. - David Kennedy, DDS, IAOMT affiliated Western Medicine Dentist

Dentistry, as a "medical" profession has not advanced much in the last few hundred years। The major change is they now give you anesthetic before ripping out a tooth or drilling holes in your mouth. Natural Hygiene practices, detailed in my upcoming book, are far more effective at preventing dental disease than anything a modern day madman can achieve.

I've long wondered what lead people to a career in dentistry, particularly pediatric dentistry. What leads people to enjoy inflicting pain?

What follows are some of the confessions of a real world dentist regarding the dangers of dentistry. Please be warned, some of this material will seem somewhat unbelievable or even shocking. Other confessions are a bit technical and can as a result take re-reading to understand. The dentist, David Kennedy, DDS, can be found on youtube under the user name davidkennedydds. These shocking dental revelations came from a series of discussions Kennedy had with a number of critics and supporters over the last few years. The picture he paints of dentistry is disturbing at the very least. He is affiliated with the International Academy of Oral Medicine and Toxicology (IAOMT) a dental apologist group whose goal seems to be deflecting away from the dental industry by focusing attention on obsolete practices that are dying out, such as the use of mercury in fillings.

Are dentists actually USEFUL for anything?

Tooth decay and gum disease are infections that transfer from mother to child or lover to lover and can be easily corrected with disinfection. But that doesn't make any money so why tell anyone:-( ... the bad oral bacteria directly linked not only to most tooth loss but heart disease, stroke, low birth weight babies, aneurism and even pancreatic cancers.

Both tooth decay and gum disease are almost totally preventable. Bad for business but good for you.

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Dentist go to an ADA accredited school and learn NOTHING about toxicology.

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Drilling a big hole in a tooth makes it weak and break later in life. Do not despair. I've seen a lot worse problems in my 30+ years as a dentist

On Root Canals and filings:

Root canals are efforts to retain a non-vital body part. Dentistry is the only profession that does this to my knowledge. Think about a dead toe for example.

Would you pay thousands of dollars to screw a dead toe back on, paint it skin colored, manufacture a porcelain nail to replace the one that fell off, deodorize it frequently because it smells? Or would you think that process insane?

When dead we have two choices:
A. You can be buried
B. You can be stuffed

Root canals are the latter.

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Research has confirmed that regardless of how you try even specialists cannot make a porous tooth sterile.

Like a dead tree in the forest. . . once the tree dies the bugs start recycling the wood. Unfortunately the bacteria that dwell in dead teeth release hydrogen sulfide gas and many hugely toxic exotoxins are released from many but not all dead teeth with or without root canal.
...research has firmly established that you cannot physically dissolve and remove the organic contents of the root. Therefore you have to leave gangrenous pulp in the canal.

second and perhaps even more importantly the tooth itself fills up with periodontal anaerobic pathogens regardless of how thoroughly you disinfect the canal. A major problem as I see it.

You apparently can temporarily disinfect the roots with iodine but not long.

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If you had a dead toe and wanted a doctor to remove it wouldn't that be the ethical thing to do?

What if they insisted on putting on new skin as it had turned greenish, making a fake toenail because the other had fallen off, screwing it on with titanium and charging you thousands of dollars?

Replace dead toe with dead tooth and you have dentistry's standard of care. Problem is the SOC. it is your choice not the dentists

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If your only criteria for success is the absence of pain and the fact that the remnants of the tooth remain in the jaw for long periods of time then you are correct.

If you want a dead root full of bacteria that constantly produce hugely poisonous exotoxins then keep it. Measurements of dead teeth find that many of them leak these extremely poisonous small protein molecules into the body.

If your criteria for success is to not insult the immune or neurological system then root canals fail.

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100% of root canals examined with DNA for bacterial content find substantial residual bacterial content. That is not to say they all caused the same pathology or even have the same organisms. Just be aware that leaving a dead tooth in the mouth provides a place for anaerobic pathogenic organisms to live and prosper.

There are 3 miles of tubules in an anterior tooth wide enough for 6 bacteria abreast. Good idea to try and make this environment inhospitable but again where is the evidence. ... Drilling a tooth down for a crown causes at least a 10% tooth mortality within 10 years in my experience. This goes double if the driller went to the School of Aesthetics and cuts into the face of the tooth 1.5 to 1.75 mm so their Hollywood smile can look perfect or at least until the bill is paid. Drilling causes hyperemia and kills the nerve.

Crowns are very good for kings and wallets.

On the Dangers of amalgam fillings, also known as "silver" or "Mercury" fillings

It has been shown in the peer reviewed scientific literature since 1926 that mercury vapor comes off set dental amalgam. ... Mercury was used as a diuretic because it damaged the kidneys and made you P lots. Today they use less harmful drugs but the fact remains that mercury is very toxic to kidneys.

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Smoking Teeth needs no validation. This is a well recognized property of mercury/silver fillings. I too dislike liars and cheats who cloak their remarks in false science. What I have given you in 500 character increments is the evidence. You gave back doubt but no evidence. Where is your research published?

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What we have here are the last vestiges of yesterday. research has confirmed that lots of mercury leaks from every amalgam filling ever made. These poor old befuddled dentists are making believe that 150 years of research hasn't proven mercury to be an insidious deadly health and nerve destroying poison.

Remarks about the angers of patients having an allergic reaction to dental materials

unless you are allergic? What dentist even knows how to test for allergy? What if you are allergic. What then now that you have several grams ... in your teeth?

Dentists and their assistants face unique health threats:

And the health problems of dental assistants and dental nurses have been studies in the scientific literature and they do indeed have substantially higher mercury related illnesses.

Hysterectomy, infertility, birth defect children are but a few of the documented side effects of dentistry's callous disregard for the safety of employees and patients.

Linda Jones et al. (Injury to) New Zealand School Dental Nurses, from occupational mercury exposure. Human & Experimental Toxicology

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Dentists claim without reference that there is no evidence linking mercury from amalgam to any human disease. Linda Jones has now found exactly the same uterine problems in dental nurses as you've experienced.

I am so sorry that my profession is ignorant and causing so much harm to others.

Linda Jones et al. A 30-year follow-up of residual effects on New Zealand School Dental Nurses, from occupational mercury exposure Human & Experimental Toxicology, vol. 26, No.4, 367-375 (2007)

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It's a crime in my opinion what dentists are doing to their staff and what dental schools are doing to the students.

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I recently read the Material Safety Data Sheet for Dispersalloy for the California Occupational Standards Board. They were shocked. The amalgam filling materials manufacturer states with great clarity that inhaling the vapor can cause permanent neurological harm and is not recommended. Women exposed frequently suffer from infertility. By the Doctrine of Learned Intermediary every dentist who uses amalgam was suppose to inform the patient of these facts before implanting their mercury fillings. ... the dentists has long been legally and morally obligated to share this information but not just the recipient patients but also staff members and other employees who might come in contact with the mercury vapors.

Experiments conducted on children in the name of dentistry

the ADA has touted the unethical children's mercury poisoning study (no informed consent no mention of mercury) as proving mercury safe the data from that study does not support such a rosy assessment. Woods J. Environmental Health Perspectives in 2007 reported that both boys and girls lost their ability to excrete mercury through their kidneys. That is proof beyond doubt of harm to these children. They should be ashamed.

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The complete data is not available to outside researchers the study but this courageous scientist disserves credit for publishing what has been proven.

Woods James et al. The Contribution of Dental Amalgam to Urinary Mercury Excretion in Children Environmental Health Perspectives Vol. 115, #10 October 2007

Proof positive that the orphans in the children's Mercury Poisoning With Amalgam Study little boy's kidneys were damaged and could not excrete mercury.

Removing toxic fillings can be even more dangerous than leaving them in!

DON'T HAVE YOUR FILLINGS DRILLED OUT WITHOUT PROTECTION. IT CAN KILL YOU. I recently learned of a physician who had a similar amalgam removal experience and soon developed IDCM. See my post below about the study by Frustaci that found 22,000 more mercury in the dead hearts than in a hearts with cardiovascular disease or a healthy heart.

At this level of mercury we can firmly say that it is causal. Careful protected removal and treatment of the mercury toxicity is the only solution.

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I also know of a physician who upon finding out he had mercury/silver fillings went back to the same fool that put them in and just drilled them out. Within two weeks he developed ICDM (See my post) and had to have a heart transplant.

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MERCURY CAUSES IDCM Frustaci A, Magnavita N, Chimenti C, et al.  Marked elevation of myocardial trace elements in idiopathic dilated cardiomyopathy compared with secondary cardiac dysfunction. J American College of Cardiology 33(6) 1578, 1999. Data showed that individuals who died with IDCM (idiopathic dilated cardiomyopathy, the cause of young athletics dying during physical stress) had 22,000 times more mercury in their heart tissues than individuals who died of other forms of heart disease.

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Get a better trained dentist immediately!!! Allowing a patient to swallow this hazardous waste is irresponsible and negligent at best. May be criminal. The IAOMT has patient protection protocols that prevent inhaling the fumes and dust which are far more dangerous than the chunks. Nevertheless anyone willing to have you est this stuff is not to be trusted. Go out and locate a new dentist who will protect you because getting mercury out of your body is nearly impossible.

On the dangers of other kinds of fillings:

Composites usually do not contain BPA. Some but not all contain Bis-GMA which may be converted to BPA in small amounts over time.

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I retired from clinical practice at the turn of the century and so I may not know all of the new materials but there are many satisfactory ones.

I used a lot of gold and composite with no fluoride or Bis-GMA. ... Gold can produe an allergy as can composite. The latest concern is the BisPheonlA (BPA) found as a breakdown product of many composites. However, the toxicity of BPA pales in comparison to mercury.

Editor's Note: Are YOU comforted by the thought of you fillings being only marginally less dangerous than mercury?

Sealants that are made of clear or tooth colored composite plastic do not leak mercury. Many unscrupulous companies sell products that the FDA has never properly approved; varnish, cements, sealants and composite fillings laced with high levels of fluoride. The levels generated locally on soft tissue in contact with these materials is substantially above the levels that caused cancers of lip tongue liver and bone in rats and I strongly recommend against fluoride leaking restorative materials.

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Composites do contain substances of concern.

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Ceramic is fragile, short lived, demands extreme tooth reduction and although very biocompatible itself almost always cemented with composite.

Fluoride

Be sure to check with the dentist that placed them [fillings] as some add a time-release fluoride to the composite. This raises the risk of oral cancers and is unlawful in my opinion. There are no F compounds approved by the FDA intended to be ingested to prevent tooth decay. It is a carcinogen according to the original NTP results. Of course these findings were changed by the advocates for F expsure in Washington DC.

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I will ask you for the scientific evidence that ingested fluoride is any benefit whatsoever. Three different courts in three different states found it did not exist.

Despite often touted claims of benefit (just like mercury) there is ample evidence of harm from ingesting fluoride.

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Fluoride in our water is money and war. They generated millions of tons of hydrofluosilicic acid in making atomic bombs. Their disposal program, concocted with the help of ignorant dentists, is water fluoridation.

Did they know it would destroy the children of this nation? I don't know. They are all dead so no one to ask. ... As for fluoridation which delivers a dose of fluoride to an infant on a bottle at a level which causes visible harm that too has been rejected by the majority of countries throughout the world.

A unique murder-suicide aided by dentistry

Some kinds of exposure are much worse than others. For example you may drink liquid mercury and apparently experience a minimum of injury because mercury is poorly absorbed. If you took scrap dental amalgam and put it in a frying pan and heated it up you could kill a substantial number of people including yourself as one security guard at the amalgam recycling plant in Detroit did a number of years ago. He could probably have eaten the scrap and survived.

How does he recommend you remove mercury from your body?

Traditionally drug chelators along with nutrients like selenium and sulfur containing amino acids were the only choice and now a simple additive may actually help the body detox better than drugs. Oxidative Stress Relief (OSR) is available from a physician or dentist who only needs to order it for you as the inventor doesn't want just anyone gobbling it down.

If you have a known allergy to sulfur you should use with caution as this product contains not one but two sulfur linked amino acids.

Regarding those who discount the dental dangers davidkennedydds has discussed / confessed:

Kahlil Gibran wrote in the "Prophet" that, There are no eyes so blind as those that will not see. There are no ears so deaf as those that will not hear.

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I can believe that the same people who brought us Katrina clean-up are able to orchestrate a global conspiracy. It is stupidity more likely. ... Fraud is knowing deception. Fraud is deceiving the public about what has been proven.

He [Alton Lacey] made the statement during the CDB's hearing into the safety of mercury which boiled down to their profound belief in magic and the fact that it has been used a long long tome and we have no knowledge of any adverse health effect cuaused by mercury.

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Dr Bozo I am not your problem. Scientific proof you are harming your clients is what makes your skin wrinkle. You don't know what harm you have caused are causing so you attack with words the source of information.

In apparent support of the end of dentistry:

The bugs that cause stroke heart attack, aneurism and pancreatic cancer are often found in the mouths of children by age 10. DNA testing confirms that they come from mothers lovers and dogs.

The fact that they are found often does not make them normal unless of course you consider it NORMAL to have gum disease or heart disease.

Gum disease heals completely when these pathogens are destroyed exactly like every other known infection heals when the causative organisms are destroyed.

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You are referring to the work of Steinman at Loma Linda. Weston Price showed the roll of white flower, white sugar, and white bread in tooth decay but there are at least three more factors. One is the physical health of the person, two the presence of Strep mutans and the other is the saliva or rather lack of saliva which is essential for protecting the teeth. Many drugs lower saliva output and thus increase decay rates enormously.

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The cost of prevention is miniscule to the cost of fillings but sadly the dental profession doesn't care about that either. No money in prevention I've heard from hundreds of dentists for more than 40 years.

The cost of taking care of one person with Alzheimer's disease totally dwarfs the cost of dental care for many hundreds of people but because one is a medical condition caused by dentists and the other is an expense born by family the dentists and their henchmen the politicians don't care.