{"id":614,"date":"2023-01-26T23:49:18","date_gmt":"2023-01-26T23:49:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.docsites.com\/news\/?p=614"},"modified":"2023-01-24T23:55:56","modified_gmt":"2023-01-24T23:55:56","slug":"dental-practice-transition-communicating-existing-patients","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.docsites.com\/news\/dental-practice-transition-communicating-existing-patients\/","title":{"rendered":"Dental Practice Transition &#8211; Communicating With Existing Patients"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/3ravf42ycGs\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">A lack of communication with the existing patients of the dental practice you just acquired can be one of the biggest and costliest mistakes you can make. A lot of patients are used to the retiring dentist and they don\u2019t yet know who you are. Here are a few things you can plan for to ensure an effective communication plan with patients:<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u2705<strong> Make sure there is enough time with both doctors present so they can acclimate themselves with you and the retiring dentist<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u2705 [If you\u2019re keep the same website] <strong>Add a photo of the retiring dentist and new dentist together and make the announcement on your website<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u2705 [If you\u2019re building a new website on a new domain] <strong>Create a 301 redirect from old website to your new website domain<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u2705 <strong>Add your full name (ie. \u201cDr. Jane Smith\u201d) to the Google My Business profile of the practice.<\/strong> This way as people Google the practice name (looking for office hours, directions, etc) they will instantly see and associate the practice with yourself new incoming doctor<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A lack of communication with the existing patients of the dental practice you just acquired can be one of the biggest and costliest mistakes you can make. A lot of patients are used to the retiring dentist and they don\u2019t &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.docsites.com\/news\/dental-practice-transition-communicating-existing-patients\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,20,87,96,40,39,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-614","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-best-dental-website","category-dental-marketing","category-online-reviews-for-dentists","category-seo-for-dentists","category-social-media-marketing","category-social-media-marketing-dentists","category-websites-for-dentists"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.docsites.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/614"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.docsites.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.docsites.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.docsites.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.docsites.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=614"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.docsites.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/614\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":615,"href":"https:\/\/www.docsites.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/614\/revisions\/615"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.docsites.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.docsites.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.docsites.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}