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What is Personalized Orthodontic Care?

As a professional, if you look at the way we choose to represent ourselves through our practice websites, you’ll see one idea come up over and over again… personalized orthodontic care. Personalized care, how do we define it? It is the way we set ourselves apart as practitioners. We recognize that our patients are more than teeth requiring orthodontic correction, but people who want to feel that they have been seen and heard and recognized as special individuals, not a number at the deli counter. 😋

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How do we achieve the goal of meeting and exceeding our patients expectations? We go the extra mile by recognizing that the orthodontic journey is just as important as the destination. Any properly trained orthodontist can treat a malocclusion and provide a beautiful smile as the outcome, but is this is no longer enough to satisfy today’s savvy patient. Docs With Apps is here to help you take that next step for your patients.

Introducing Docs With Apps

Our goal at Docs With Apps is to make YOU that practitioner. the one who would do anything for his or her patients. We are all aware that patient compliance can make or break the treatment experience for all involved, let alone have a significant impact on the final outcome. 💪

Question: How do you effect a change, when you are only able to see your patients on a monthly or bimonthly schedule?

Answer: By providing them with a customized app, designed and branded specifically for your practice, that once downloaded with send each patient four fun reminders each day to lend that personalized touch that will make all the difference to that patient.

Let us build one for you today! → GO

“As an orthodontist, class II correction can be a challenge. Since getting the app, elastic compliance has improved dramatically!” – Dr. Kendra J. Remington

What is SEO and Why is It so Important for Orthodontists?

Strictly defined, SEO stands for Search Engine Optimization. What does that mean to those of us outside the tech community, and why is it so important? According to Wikipedia, Search engine optimization (SEO) is the process of improving a website’s visibility. The better the visibility, the more visitors your practice will receive from search engine users, and therefore, the better opportunity we have to convert those visitors into customers, or in our case, patients.

SEO for Orthodontic Practices

Okay, now that we know what it is, how can we use it to our advantage? Search engines, like Google, are looking for specific things which set you apart from the competition. Tip: Updating your website with quality content on a regular basis is one of the most significant actions can make. One of these things is video content. This is something that Docs With Apps can help you with. First things first, let us create a customized and branded compliance app for your practice. This is a state-of-the-art communication tool between you, your practice, and your patients that extends your care beyond the four walls of your office by sending fun reminders four times daily to help your patients wear their elastics as directed.

Good SEO for Orthodontists Translates to Better Visibility and Greater Profitability: → Get Started

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Now that that’s done, let’s optimize your SEO, shall we???  Docs With Apps will create a customized video describing what your customized app can do for your patients. We will post it on your website, you can send it directly to patients and referring doctors as a marketing tool, and yes, give your SEO a big boost at the same time, putting you at the top of the search list and, therefore, giving you the opportunity to convert more visitors to patients.

It’s a win-win. Let Docs with Apps help take your practice to the next level with your customized compliance app, your customized marketing video, and send your SEO through the roof!

What is Branding and Why is it Important to Today’s Orthodontic Practice?

Branding is a way for you to express the personality of your orthodontic practice. It humanizes the practice in a way that makes it easier for patients to connect with you on an emotional level. It is what makes your practice “yours.” As Nikki Skomal says in the Spring 2017 issue of Dental Practice Success published by the American Dental Association, “the quality of the marketing will bring them in and the quality of the experience will bring them back.”

Ms. Skomal recommends taking the following into account when designing a brand for your practice.

  • Establish a color scheme that speaks to you
  • Create a unique and recognizable logo to visually represent your practice
  • Commit to using your brand practice wide in marketing materials,  your website, office decor, etc.
  • Use your brand to develop and maintain a visual as well as virtual presence

In today’s marketplace which includes not only competing with other orthodontic colleagues for patients, but general dentists and corporate dental practices as well, we should all be looking for ways to set ourselves apart. Utilizing quality marketing and custom logos is an important first step. Docs With Apps should be the next step.

Docs With Apps will take that carefully crafted brand (or help you create one) and use it to develop a custom branded mobile app for your practice. This app allows you to reach out to patients in ways that you can’t now.

  • Do your patients need help with elastic compliance?
    Your custom app can help them manage that and shorten treatment time as a result.
  • Do your patients have issues after hours that could be resolved by utilizing two way direct messaging and photo sharing?
    Your custom app can make that a reality and eliminate unnecessary trips into the office.
  • Do your patients appreciate hearing from you directly after an exciting or difficult appointment?
    Your custom app allows you to connect with them one-on-one in ways that isn’t always possible during a busy day in the office.

Your custom, fully branded app makes it possible to connect to your patients on an emotional level. You are not just “the orthodontist,” you are a caring individual who goes out of your way to help your patients receive the best care, and as a result, the best result possible, and you are leveraging the most current technology available to make it happen. Let us help make this a reality for you today.

Branding is What Others Think of You

Your brand is not a logo, a tag line, set of colors, a website or an app – your brand is what others think of you. We are here to help you care for patients, and present your orthodontic practice optimally in both the real and virtual places where your patients and their families are interacting with you.
– Cathi Bosco Creative Director & Co-Founder at Docs With Apps LLC

Q and A with Orthodontist
Dr. Kendra Remington

Orthodontic Compliance App by Docs With Apps Today we will meet Dr. Kendra Remington who is both a founding member of Docs With Apps and our first client.

Question: Dr. Remington, how did you come to be involved with the development of DWA?
Answer: As any orthodontist will tell you, patient compliance is the key that unlocks the door to ideal results. Lack of that compliance is what keeps us up at night. This means that to accomplish that result, we are relying on their help. It occurred to me that a compliance app could help my patients help themselves.

Question: Could you explain a little bit about how the compliance app works?
Answer: In my experience, most patients want to be compliant, but find it difficult to add a new routine to their already busy lives. The compliance app sends out four daily push notifications to help them establish that routine and remember their new responsibility, in this case, to wear and replace their elastics.

Question: How do your patients and their parents respond when you discuss the features of your personalized app?
Answer: The response has been overwhelmingly positive! As we know, most adolescents are attached to their phones 24/7, so to give them a tool to help them succeed utilizing a technology that they are never without is a win-win. Parents are thrilled that the app can take over the job of reminding their child to do something so that it is no longer their job to do it.

Question: What do you like best about having a customized compliance app for your practice?
Answer: First, it is a way for me to reach out to my patients outside of office hours to give them help and support. Second, it takes away the negative feelings associated with “I forgot to wear my elastics, everyone is disappointed in me, and I will have my braces on longer.” And third, and most importantly, I love the fact that it can help my patients achieve success and the satisfaction of knowing that it was their hard work that contributed to their fantastic smile. That is a very powerful feeling.

Question: What is the overall take away message here for anyone considering having a customized compliance app developed for their practice?
Answer: Do it!
1. You are providing a valuable service for your patients.
2. You are on the cutting edge of utilizing technology within your practice in a new and exciting way.
3. The fact that the app is totally customized and branded for your practice sets you apart from the competition.

Dr. R Question: I have a follow up question for Docs With Apps, are there other features that you see being added to the compliance app, and if so, what would they be?
DWA Answer: Absolutely! In 2018, we plan on launching an urgent care app that would continue to offer push notifications, and in addition would add, two way direct messaging, camera capabilities, and demo videos. Stay tuned!

Dr. Remington has taken her practice to the next level, you too can join Docs With Apps and leverage mobile technology.

 

Extend Your Practice Beyond the Four Walls of Your Office

Now we can create your own branded mobile app! An app that will provide valuable urgent care solutions for your orthodontic practice.

docs with Apps builds compliance appsWhat problems can Docs With Apps solve for you?
Let’s learn about what makes our program unique by reviewing currently available software options. They are primarily limited to:

  • Photo sharing to social media
  • Encouraging patient reviews
  • Automated appointment reminders
  • Two way direct messaging
  • Patient portals

Our focus at Docs With Apps is Personalized Patient Care, Compliance and Mobile Urgent Care Solutions.

Together we will create a branded mobile app for your practice. A state-of-the-art communication tool between you, your practice, and your patients that extends your care beyond the four walls of your office with the following features:

  • Two way direct messaging
  • Photo sharing
  • Fun compliance reminders (mobile push notifications)
  • Access to helpful videos
  • Links to your website
  • Google Maps
  • Blog posts and more…

Contact with your practice is just a click away for your patients.

Your practice will have a fully branded mobile app which will allow doctor to patient communication phone to phone. Patient concerns can be handled by two-way direct messaging and photo sharing through the app, eliminating unnecessary trips to the office. Patients can be offered encouragement following challenging appointments. Compliance reminders can be set to help patients with elastic wear, aligner wear, and hygiene. The possibilities are endless!

Don’t get left behind, technology available in the 21st century is growing at an astounding rate. Leverage current mobile technology, yet keep the personal touch that your patients have come to expect. Get a Quote.

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