Kiss Your Dentist Goodbye: A Do-It-Yourself Mouth Care System for Healthy, Clean Gums and Teeth

In her excellent and readable book Dr Ellie sets out a dental health care routine using products readily available at chemists and healthfood stores. She sumarises current scientific knowledge on dental health and she bases her plan on her own experiences as a dentist for over 40 years and scientific research. In addition she advises on diet, foods that are bad for teeth and foods that protect teeth. Her methodology is backed by 28 pages of citations from research papers. I do not believe there is another book available that can makes this information available to the lay person. The fact that other dentists and also the Surgeon General of the United States endorse this book should serve as a recommendation. Dr Ellie makes it clear that dental decay is not inevitable, even in old age, and can be halted with the correct methods. I have started using Dr Ellie's routine and my teeth are already feeling cleaner and stronger. It is too early to tell for sure but I am confident that I have the knowledge to avoid any further cavities and to keep my teeth for the rest of my life. There is a lot of confusion in the public mind over how to keep their teeth healthy. I am very grateful to Dr Ellie for making this information available to the public. I hope many people buy her book to raise public awareness of the issues she raises.

A well explained methodology for better health with scientific evidence, yet easy to read. Potentially more expensive as a daily dental care routine, but potentially saving hundreds if not thousands in the long run. Thank you for sharing your knowledge with us.

Ellie Phillips, a dentist trained at a prestigious dental school, explains the slightly unorthodox tooth care routine (elaborate if done fully) she favours after long professional interest in the subject. Because of the limited information dentists give I bought the book despite its off-putting and misleading title. Is her advice based on decent evidence, or is this yet another dubious healthcare book? Reassuringly, Phillips gives references to scientific sources for many of her claims although I don't have time to check them properly. Her book carries endorsements from people who appear to be experts. To my uninformed eye, most of her book seems to make sense and provide important information new to me. A few things cause me concern. Briefly she refers positively to a 'holistic medicine' approach. Popular as this is with many people, it is a slippery term generally used to endorse practices not supported by the evidence nowadays expected in medical practice. Doctors have learned the hard way that treatments which seemed self-evidently good were in fact useless or harmful. Much of Dr Phillips' evidence is her own experience with some patients. Such experience is known to be fallible and more rigorous doctors use elaborate research designs to minimise and check for the effects of chance and all-too-natural bias. She is not keen on the fairly popular oral irrigators such as WaterPik, but her view is not based on objective oral health outcomes. To be fair, neither is the supporting evidence and she makes it clear that her personal view is just that. Dr Phillips is a strong advocate of xylitol, a readily available sugar claimed to have protective properties for teeth and gums. She recommends a routine and makes striking claims (with references) for benefit. Even here there are problems. What is the evidence that swallowing the xylitol rather than bathing the teeth and gums in it does any good? Have possible harmful effects of swallowing been looked for? Although pure xylitol is reasonably cheap and available in supermarkets, products such as sweets and chewing gum incorporating enough xylitol seem worryingly expensive. And it seems she sells them and other recommended products, so she has a commercial interest. Again, to be fair she clearly and repeatedly points out the cheaper alternative which she does not sell. The book is repetitive and contains quite a lot of blank pages as part of the page count. If the book is broadly right, as I think it could be, it describes a revolution in dental care. In summary: thought-provoking, informative, seemingly weak evidence in parts. But how do we know the information in your dentist's office is any better? They don't have time to put their evidence on display for critical examination. As the book points out, The American Dental Association and British Dental Association dental care sites don't mention xylitol. The California Dental Association supports xylitol in its Evidence Based Guidelines for Health Professionals (PDF). I would welcome comments adding other consensus statements by mainstream academic dental experts on the topics the book covers.

My dentist didn’t really know why my gums were receding and suggested various things but not once mentioned the things in this book! I am know feeling optimistic and keen to follow Dr Ellie’s advice. I first saw her on you tube and was so impressed that I bought her book and was not disappointed. An eye opening read!

I am very passionate about Dr Ellie’s approach! I bought this book in 2012 and I am so happy I did. Her guidance together with food supplements (Fermented Cod Liver Oil and Butter Oil from Green Pastures) which I am equally passionate about, transformed my teeth health. I have always had problematic teeth but after I noticed signs of gum receding over three years ago (I was 34 then), I panicked and started to research online on ways to improve my teeth health. I have been following Dr Ellie's routine and eat the food supplements from Green Pastures (Dr Weston Price) for over three years now and I can happily report that my gums stopped receding, my teeth are stronger and despite having been pregnant and currently breastfeeding I haven’t had any teeth or gum problems since. That is a major deal for someone who needed new fillings on most regular visits to the dentist! So in my experience, Dr Ellie’s approach + food supplements + flossing worked brilliant. If you want to improve your teeth health this book will definitely help!

I am so happy to have discovered Dr Ellie Phillips.. This book is wonderful. Has anyone in the UK found a dentist that supports the work of this amazing lady ? My dentist just tells me to floss and cut down on sugar and my dental bill has recently been over 2K ! So I need a new dentist that teaches me how to prevent further treatment but dont know where to go, I wish Dr Ellie Phillips was in the UK.

This book contains clear explanations of the research behind its approach, is free from commercial promotion, and has an easy-to-follow regime for improving the health of your mouth. As Dr Phillips is originally from the UK, though now in the US, her book contains useful alternative recommendations for buyers in the UK and other countries. An extra star for Dr Ellie's website, with a good blog. And when I emailed with 2 questions I got a very prompt and helpful response. Excellent service!

I found her on Youtube when desperately searching for the natural cure for cavity or periodontal disease. Back then the only daily dental product I use was Baking soda, which I found later in this book is not recommended due to its receding-gum causing traits. Her recommendation is a bit different from Natural path/functional dentists nor classic dentists either. Some chemicals in the CMCS products are listed as carcinogenic and I’m the kind of person who avoided those. But I tried essential oil gargling(peppermint, tea tree, etc), oil pulling, and baking soda and those things didn’t give me any good results. So I decided to give benefit of the doubt and try at least 2 years until any glaring show up. Now it’s on my 4 month doing CMCS and seeing some improvements. Teeth feel clean all the time and no plaque stuck on it. Sensitivity didn’t go away until I realize that I use too much pressure and brush too long. Using toothbrush properly is one of the key factors to see better improvements. Now I really appreciate the efforts she put in to share great knowledge in spite of the fact that there are many opponent and adversary who try to take her down. (Because those people don’t want us to know some truth about dentistry)

I highly recommend Dr. Ellie’s system of tooth care. After receiving a cleaning 3 years ago, I began to feel and notice rapid gum recession. I am 43 and hadn’t been to the dentist in several years (I’ve had trauma at the dentist), so I was hesitant to go back to the dentist for help with this issue, fearing some kind of crazy surgery on my gums. I’ve always been told I have strong enamel and do a good job brushing at the dentist and orthodontist, but was told at sixteen I had receding gums. It never bothered me for about twenty-three years with sporadic cleanings, until my last cleaning 3 years ago. The sensitivity I had from sweet, and even room temp, foods was getting unbearable. I would hold my jaw for several minutes waiting for the pain to pass if I happened to eat something that set it off. It’s been 3.5 weeks, and that notch in my gum on my front tooth is much improved (not sure which order they will upload in, but the clearer one is the “progress” photo), and my gums are much thicker. Also, my pain level is down about 80-85%. I can eat frozen yogurt, salads and cold granola cereal again. I really appreciate the logical and research-based approach to Dr Ellie’s dental care. I also appreciate that she’s not pushing some kind of snake oil remedy. Every product she recommends is produced by other manufacturers and even her own mints are not pushed as the only xylitol product that works. It seems to me she really cares about people’s mouth health and is not out to make a quick buck - which I do appreciate. Also, you can start this system with information she has available for free online. I purchased her book to go more in depth on the research and to check it as an easy recommendation to others. I purchase her mints to support her work, because, honestly, she’s saving me a lot of money and pain. I set up my bathroom with her proven system for ease of use and it takes no more time than if you brush and floss for every tooth cleaning. I found all the products here on Amazon (which can also be found here in Dr Zellies profile). I keep Zellies mints in these cute candy dishes around the house and a pack in my purse to make this step easily accessible in her tooth care system after eating. My mouth feels clean and my teeth feel slick, no longer “hairy” after eating. And I’m in so much less pain in just 3 short weeks with visible changes! Would not be surprised to find my teeth in no pain in no time. This book/system is a game changer in dental health - I highly recommend!

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Easy to order. Timely delivery. Product as advertised. Would reorder from this business.