About The Preventive Dental Health Association
The Preventive Dental Health Association is a educational non-profit corporation founded by David Kennedy, DDS, that provides information, tools, and hands-on workshops to news media, legislatures, and the public for the purpose of promoting dental health in the field of Preventive Dentistry.

PDHA recommends the use of safe dental care alternatives to harmful substances. Through technological advances, as well as safe traditional formulas, harmful elements as fluoride and mercury no longer need to be introduced into the human body.

PDHA has found that oral treatments handed down by grandmothers the world over remain to this day to be some of the healthiest and most effective.

In addition, we recommend only those methods which have been proven non-harmful and effective by rigorous scholarly research.

For more than a 20 years we have guided hundreds of families toward better dental health by providing information to the public at health fairs and have sponsored the dental profession continuing education seminars in a wide variety of topics including safe mercury/silver filling removal, prevention and reversal of gum disease with technology and antiseptics, and the fundamentals of biological dental care.

We are not a lobbying or political organization.

David Kennedy, DDS, Founder
Dr. David C. Kennedy has practiced dentistry for more than 30 years. He is the Past President of the International Academy of Oral Medicine and Toxicology, which was formed to review, support, and disseminate research on the suitability of materials and methodologies used in the dental practice. Dr. Kennedy is currently the Information Officer on fluoride for the International Academy of Oral Medicine and Toxicology.

He has lectured to dentists, physicians and other health professionals all over the world on the subjects of preventive dental health, mercury toxicity, and fluoride. He is the author of the book How To Save Your Teeth with toxic free preventive dentistry that provides instruction and insight for both professionals and the layman on how to provide and receive toxic-free dentistry.

In 1999 Dr. Kennedy visited villages in Inner Mongolia where he witnessed the conditions that now afflicts 43 million Chinese children with dental fluorosis, 1.6 million Chinese with severe skeletal fluorosis and an at-risk population in the endemic areas of 100 million, roughly 9% of the entire country.

Dr. Kennedy and his wife, hosted by the China Medical University and the People‘s Republic of China Department of Endemic Disease Control, produced a documentary film titled Crippling Waters on the problems of excess fluoride in drinking waters of China and their efforts to reduce fluoride intake. This documentary has been viewed all over the world at scientific conferences, both in Europe and Asia. It premiered at the Defluoridation Conference in Chiang Mai, Thailand in November of 2000, and was widely acclaimed by the participants as accurate, dramatic and revealing.

More recently he produced the Smoking Teeth = Poison Gas documentary that highlights the 20 years of pivotal medical research funded by the International Academy of Oral Medicine and Toxicology into the impact of mercury from dental amalgams. His Smoking Teeth has rapidly become a best seller for the Academy and the internet version is available for free viewing at www.iaomt.org. In addition he with the help of Michael Connett has compiled a series of videos into a two part DVD made for use in the home, office or play on public access TV titled, Fluoridation Let the truth Be told Parts I & II.

Dr. Kennedy has participated in numerous scientific conferences on the biological impact of mercury from dental fillings. In 1987 he addressed American Dental Society of Europe on the topic of dental personnel injury from the use of mercury in dentistry. In 1991, and again in 1994, he participated in the German Department of Health symposiums on the safety of amalgam. He has spoken to the New York Dental Society on a number of occasions and most recently on the “Informed Consent” regulations. He is recognized around the world and a leader in the field of preventive dentistry. In 1999 he addressed the Chinese Fluoride and Arsenic Society on the subject of injury from chronic low dose exposure to fluoride in Shenyang, China.

At the turn of the century Dr. Kennedy retired after 30 years of clinical practice and since then has worked as a consultant and dental expert. He has also taken on the responsibility for the International Academy of Oral Medicine and Toxicology’s of developing the eNewsletter as it’s first editor. Future issues and discussion will appear here at http://iaomt.bolgspot.com. The home page of the Academy can be found at http://www.iaomt.org.