Kiss Your Dentist Goodbye: A Do-It-Yourself Mouth Care System for Healthy, Clean Gums and Teeth Paperback – January 9, 2017

The media could not be loaded. 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!

It is amazing that there's a treatment for teeth that if begun in infancy will protect teeth for the rest of your life.Personal experience: My parents were very interested in protecting my dental health from infancy. They did not allow me to eat candy, chew gum and drink soda for the first nine or ten years of my life. As a result I had perfect dental health! Then I got braces to straighten my teeth, went away to boarding school where I became addicted to chocolate candy and would buy it every chance I got and drank soda whenever available! I faithfully brushed my teeth, but still got a few cavities! This was before flossing was taught. In my adult years my oral health became worse and now I have caps on my back teeth and a bridge on four of my front upper teeth.I just discovered Ellie Phillips' mouth care system on YouTube about 2 months ago and have been trying to follow it ever since. It's rather late in life for me, I'm 73/74 years old, turning 74 this month. I didn't really understand it till I finished reading this book. At first I was doing everything she recommended except for the xylitol mints/gum and doing the system twice a day. I didn't know how to obtain xylitol at first, got my first bottle from Walmart, took about a week to get it, then I ordered it from Zellies, their largest offering, but they were backlogged and it took a couple of weeks, in the meantime I found it on Amazon and got it within two days! About halfway through this book I realized that I really needed to do the whole system twice a day and have been faithfully doing so for about 3 days. It is already making a difference!Even with doing it just once a day, at first, I noticed that plaque was not forming on my teeth and I was not flossing! My gums stopped bleeding. The worn parts of my bottom teeth were beginning to fill in and they are beginning to look whiter, this accelerated as I started doing it twice a day! The Cherry Berry flavor of Xylitol is my favorite so far, in fact I have a hard time not eating more than two at a time, not that eating more is a problem other than the fact that they are very expensive and eating more uses them up more quickly than otherwise!If there were affordable candy, muffins and drinks using only xylitol as their sweeteners I would definitely buy them, still have a sweet tooth! Perhaps Zellies could diversify in this area?!! Hint, hint!!!Learned in this book that the human body produces 15 grams of Xylitol every day so it is a natural sweetener for humans.Just remember, our pets are not human! Do not feed xylitol to them! It will make them sick!This book is definitely a worthwhile read! Enjoy!!!

The information is awesome and the method she suggests is great. I've only been doing it a week, so I'll update in a few months. But even so far my teeth feel much cleaner all the time not just right after I brush. I also finally fell like I understand my mouth and teeth. The reason it is 4 stars and not 5 is because I feel it's crazy repetitive at times and she doesn't actually explain the method until, like, chapter 15 or something. It a book that has been very helpful, but it was an effort to get through it. I feel it could have been much more concise.