Kiss Your Dentist Goodbye: A Do-It-Yourself Mouth Care System for Healthy, Clean Gums and Teeth Paperback – January 28, 2025

This book is so helpful for dental health, I hardly know where to begin. I truly wish that I had known all about this years ago, and for sure it would have saved me from getting my old silver filling exchanged for a white composite one, and it would have kept me from using tooth whitener bleaches also, which harmed my teeth. It also would have prevented my husband, with a history of bad dental health, from progressing to further dental damage which led to an abscess and having an extraction.Dr. Ellie gives a detailed history on all kinds of hot subjects, for instance the fluoride debate, as well as others also. and she breaks down the confusion into sensible facts that you can understand. She also describes how a myriad of different health processes (bacterial, healing, etc.) actually work inside the mouth, and what you can do about them in an easy and practical manner. For those who live outside the U.S. and can't easily obtain the products in the system she put together, she offers suggestions for what they can do instead to still obtain results. She also has a chapter devoted to detailing sneaky things that many regular dentists do to ruin your health (both intentional and unintentional) that you can be on the lookout for and get an understanding of so that you can protect yourself going forward from these damaging practices.The focus of her book is to help the average person to understand how oral health works and detail the system that she devised years ago, a system that has been proven many times over in her own dental patients as well as her own family and friends. Now she is bringing this information to the world, as people the world over are constantly battling decay, disease and tooth loss. This is a detailed system with specific instructions that she says is guaranteed to work for all people of all ages to improve oral health, STOP the damage, and reverse dental disease, if her recommendations and instructions are followed to the letter and not changed or substituted.The recommended products are easily available at many regular groceries and drugstores, so you don't have to shell out big bucks to special order hard-to-find niche products. It may sound hard to believe and kind of too good to be true, but if you learn what you need to do and apply yourself to doing it correctly and following her exact recommendations, you will be thrilled with the powerful changes in your oral health, and also the power to take control of your own dental health, and not be at the fruitless mercy of your dentist any longer.

Reviewed in the United States on March 16, 2025Do you have sensitive teeth or cavities?Do your gums bleed or hurt?Do you have gum pockets?Do you grind your teeth at night?Dr. Ellie Phillips is the author of Kiss Your Dentist Goodbye and Mouth Health Comes Clean. She has practiced dentistry for fifty years in England, Switzerland, and The United States, and has treated children as well as patients in nursing homes.Dr. Phillips states in her books that there are two causes for cavities and gum disease:1. Acidity2. Dry mouthWhen your saliva is acidic due to your diet, pregnancy, hormonal changes, medications, or stress, it creates an ideal environment for calcium and phosphates to leach out of your teeth to demineralize. This can also happen when you eat or drink foods that are acidic, such as coffee, tea, carbonated drinks, fruit juices, and so on.What helps to put calcium and phosphates back into your teeth to mineralize them is a mineral-rich saliva in a non-acidic environment. She argues that oral health is not so much about removing food particles from your teeth with brushing and flossing but more about your mouth’s environment.Through her many years of experience, using the latest research in oral health, she has developed a home care system that can reverse many types of dental and gum disease.Her "Complete Mouth Care System" uses common oral care products applied in a specific way to eliminate oral pathogens without harming the good bacteria. Her system eliminates gum pockets, make gums healthier with her special brushing technique, and remineralize teeth by increasing absorption of calcium and phosphates. She also provides advice on mineral-rich and alkalizing foods that support oral health.There is only one issue with her system that all health-conscious readers will face: some of the products she recommends, such as Crest toothpaste, have artificial colors, flavors, and other chemicals that we would not want to put in our mouths. And as a health-conscious dentist herself, she acknowledges that it is an issue. However, Dr. Phillips argues that if you have a serious dental or gum disease, these products with their specific formulation work effectively to help you avoid fillings and surgery. And she is absolutely correct. I have seen how quickly her system has helped me and those I know improve the health of our teeth and gums, including one who improved so much she avoided several fillings.Dr. Phillips is absolutely against fluoridation of drinking water but as the last step in her "Complete Mouth Care System," she recommends a very dilute (0.05%) fluoride rinse. She argues that rinsing for a few seconds with this dilute fluoride rinse creates a charge on the protein biofilm--speeding absorption of minerals from salvia into the tooth--to the point where the enamel is fully mineralized for faster healing of dental caries and cavities.I used her system several months ago, especially during the pandemic mix. It got rid of a really bad toothache. After a couple of really good dental checkups, I mainly rely on Zellie’s xylitol mints after each meal and snack formulated by Dr. Phillips and brush 2 minute using Crest anti-cavity toothpaste.Her many videos on social media is invaluable. Thank you, Dr. Phillips.

I’m so glad I came across the YouTube channel and found Dr. Ellie and her book! I have been following her protocol for a week - the book is so helpful in knowing why she selects specific items to use for your dental health. She also discusses topics like oral cancer (and the surprising cause which I had no idea!) and how everything is linked with your overall health. She promotes xylitol and I had no idea it’s found in certain foods. I just feel like this was a god send. Less than a week later and my mouth feels 90% better. I couldn’t even eat granola a week ago but this book helped me and now I’m eating nuts! I love this protocol and it’s easy to understand and follow. Any questions I’ve had have been quickly replied to on her YouTube.Dr Ellie - thank you! I’m so happy I read this book and will pass it on to family members. This is a book everyone needs to read.