Various strategies could be effectively used to market Dental Implants and this blog discusses those strategies which will mutually be beneficial to Dentists and patients as well.
I am sure that all Dentists maintain an active database of their patients and the treatment they were given. Dentists should check the database to identify who would potentially need Dental Implants. Front Office staff should get in touch with these patients and enquire with them about the dental issues they have and suggest fixing an appointment with a Dentist. Once the patient comes to the Clinic for treatment the Dentist should check the status of the teeth and if there is a need for an implant he/she should stress the need for fixing up the Implants at the earliest. Each Dentist will follow a different method or strategy to convince their patient to take up Implants.
One of the ways how corporate hospitals and Doctors push their ideas to patients in the pre-covid 19 periods is to send newsletters to patients underlining the need for various dental treatments, including Dental Implants but during the prevailing pandemic period, it has logistically become difficult to reach such a newsletter to the patients. Hence it is better to email an electronic version of the newsletter (PDF or HTML version) to patients.
In this newsletter, the Dentist should discuss why a patient irrespective of age should go for Implants.
The other way to target clients is taking to social media. Today young or old are glued to social media be it Facebook or Instagram or WhatsApp. Social media makes it easy to take our messages easily and effectively.
The Dentist should post health tips regularly. These health tips need to include the ones which will easily make the patient think about taking treatments, including Dental Implants. Dentists should keep in mind that one picture will speak more than 1,000 words, so the post should have fewer words and be more visual about Implants.
Google Ads could also be yet another effective way to market Dental treatments like Dental Implants. The Google Ads will help both the Dentist and Patient mutually as a few patients often go online to get information about various dental treatments and specialists in it. So when a patient or a commoner who does a Google search will get your (Dentist) name in the search and it will make it easy for you to attract them to your clinic for consultation which can be prospectively converted for treatment.
If a Dentist follows the steps mentioned above I am sure that he would get more patients for Dental Implants and other treatments.