
Find where your clinic loses patients: a one-evening funnel count
Five numbers — enquiries, replies, bookings, visits and payments — show where your clinic loses patients. Here is where to find them and how to read the gaps between stages.
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Front-desk breakdowns for dental clinics: first reply, booking, treatment plan, follow-up. Without agency speak.

Five numbers — enquiries, replies, bookings, visits and payments — show where your clinic loses patients. Here is where to find them and how to read the gaps between stages.

One call, one evening message and one question about price tell you more about your front desk than any report. What to test, what to note and how to review it with your team.

Three steps that turn a first call or message into a booked consultation: ask about the problem, explain the next step and offer two time options. Plus the mistakes that send patients elsewhere.

Patients often message several clinics at once and book with the one that replies first and to the point. Who should answer, what to do in the evenings and at weekends, and templates that lead to a booking.

A missed call is a patient who has already decided to book but could not get through. How to put every missed call and message on one list, give it an owner and call back within an hour.

The patient left with a treatment plan and ‘I’ll think about it’. Here is how to run follow-up: who calls, when, what to say and where persistence turns pushy.

The patient leaves to ‘think it over’ and never comes back. Often the problem isn’t the price but a plan they didn’t understand. How to write one with prices, stages and a next step.

How to confirm appointments the day before, which reminders to send and what to do the same day with a patient who didn't turn up, so you can rebook them calmly and without pressure.
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