Ellie Phillips - Kiss your dentist goodbye: a do-it-yourself mouth care system for healthy, clean gums and teeth

Kiss Your Dentist Goodbye will enlighten the public and dental professionals on the simple and mostly unknown ways of reducing decay and improving oral health. After reading this book you will be asking yourself why this important health information isnt making headlines. Well, its about to!

Chris Kammer, DDS, founder, Masters of Progressive Dentistry; founding member, American Academy of Cosmetic Dentistry; dental expert for USA Today, Readers Digest, and FOX News

Having been engaged in pharmaceutical development for over twenty years, I have become skeptical of so-called novel approaches to treating disease. However, the oral health care system described in Dr. Phillips book, Kiss Your Dentist Goodbye , is based on sound physiology and biochemistry. Colleagues, family members, friends, and I have used Dr. Phillips system for years and have all experienced significant and persistent clinical improvement.

Michael A. Rudy, MD; president, Cytologics, Inc. (a pharmaceutical research and development company)

Xylitol is awesome! I have been recommending xylitol to patients for years. My patients that have gone out and bought xylitol are really into it. It is the most practical way to eliminate decay and plaque, as well as helping problems with dry mouth.

Connie Sidder, RDH; practicing dental hygienist for thirty years and frequent contributor to dental hygiene magazines

Empower yourself! Dental decay is a disease YOU can do something about. This book tells you what, why, and how to do it. You can end dental damage and gum diseaseeven reverse early cavities in the comfort of your home.

Nancy Kehr, director, National School of Dental Assisting; consultant in dental practice management, Nancy Kehr Consulting

Thought provoking, to say the least, Kiss Your Dentist Goodbye encourages individuals to understand the caries disease process, question traditional beliefs, and take a proactive role to improve the strength and health of teeth in their care. On the quest for prevention, Dr. Phillips has mapped a new road for consideration and an easy-to-implement lifestyle change.

Diane Brucato-Thomas, RDH, EF, BS, FADDH; ADHA-HuFriedy Master Clinician Award 2008; Sunstar/RDH Award of Distinction 2002; fellow in Periodontology, American Academy of Dental Hygiene

At a time of dental care transition, Ellie Phillips has written an exciting contribution to energize the public. It is bound to generate considerable debate, and discussion, with dental professionals, academicians, and recipients of that care. It gives the public more information and encourages personal oral health maintenance and prevention, all the while being down to earth. Bravo! Dr. Phillips embraces an accumulated forty years in multiple professional environments. She has refined her knowledge and presented it in a patient-oriented fashion for all socio-economic backgrounds. She is a pioneer practitioner.

James R. Delaney, DDS, FAAPD; chief of dentistry, Childrens Hospital of Michigan

What Doctor Ellie teaches in this book works exceptionally well. Patients now have a chance to avoid expensive dental treatments. Ethical and caring dentists will want to teach this information to their patients. As the tireless champion of preventive dental care, Ellie is ushering in very necessary and long overdue change. Everyone will benefit from reading this book

David Snape, author of What You Should Know about Gum Disease

A DO-IT-YOURSELF

MOUTH CARE SYSTEM

for HEALTHY, CLEAN

GUMS and TEETH

Ellie Phillips, DDS

Disclaimer. The information in this book cannot be used to diagnose or treat patients. The information and opinions are as close to the scientific truth as possible but have been simplified for general informational purposes. Readers should not rely on this information as a substitute for personal, medical, and/or dental attention or diagnosis; only you and your dentist can make appropriate treatment decisions.

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Copyright 2010 by Ellie Phillips

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Publishers Cataloging-in-Publication Data
(Prepared by The Donohue Group, Inc.)

Phillips, Ellie.
Kiss your dentist goodbye : a do-it-yourself mouth care system for healthy, clean gums and teeth
/ Ellie Phillips. -- 1st ed.

p.; cm.

ISBN-13: 978-1-60832-044-8

1. Teeth--Care and hygiene. I. Title.

RK61 .P54 2009
617.6/01 2008937337

Dedication

In March 2007, the American Academy of Pediatric Dentistry published a tragic story on its website. Eight-year-old Raven Blanco, from Chesapeake, Virginia, stopped breathing while receiving treatment at a pediatric dental office. Mild sedation had been used to calm the girl during the course of treatment, but at some point Raven became unresponsive. Her family watched as the dentist tried to save her. An ambulance arrived about seven minutes later, but the emergency medical crew could not revive Raven. Why she died is a mystery.

Before Raven went to sit in the dentists chair, she gave her father a ring from her finger. She said, Daddy, hold this until I get out.

And Im [still] holding it. Im going to give it to her when I see her. Im going to tell her, Raven, I held it for you, said her father.

This book is dedicated to Raven Blanco.

All truth passes through three stages: first it is ridiculed, second it is violently opposed, and third it is accepted as self-evident.

Arthur Schopenhauer, nineteenth-century philosopher

I will prescribe a regimen for the good of my patients according to my ability and my judgment and never do harm to anyone. If I keep this oath faithfully, may I enjoy my life and practice my art, respected by all men and in all times; but if I swerve from it or violate it, may the reverse be my lot.

The Hippocratic Oath

If I wish to compose or write or pray or preach well, I must be angry. Then all the blood in my veins is stirred and my understanding is sharpened.

Martin Luther

PART VI: A SYSTEM FOR HEALTHY TEETH