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Keep a record of the patient who asked the implant price and never came.

A dental CRM is not the clinical software that holds x-rays and treatment notes. It is the record of everyone who enquired: the treatment they asked about, the figure they were quoted, when their recall falls due and who sent them. GullySales sets up that record and the few fields a busy front desk will actually fill in.

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Scope, fee, reporting and term are agreed in writing after we have read your brief and spoken to you.

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What CRM means

A CRM is the record where every enquiry, call and quote is kept against a customer, replacing separate notebooks, spreadsheets and memory. GullySales sets up or cleans an existing CRM and reports from it by enquiry outcome rather than by activity logged.

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Last updated 8 Nov 2026. Rules for this trade differ by state and professional body, and they change. We describe restrictions in general terms, so check the current position with your own council or adviser before you publish anything.

For dental clinics

Where it usually goes wrong, and what we would do.

  • “Your clinical software knows the patients who came, not the ones who asked”

    The lady who rang about aligners, heard the figure and never booked exists nowhere in your system. That patient is the enquiry you paid an agency to produce.

  • “The quoted figure is the field that makes a second call possible”

    A desk that can open the record and say we discussed forty-two thousand for the single implant sounds like a clinic. One that says just checking sounds like a call centre.

  • “Clinical notes and a contact list are two different things”

    Patient information carries duties that a marketing list does not, and the rules around it differ and change. Keep the two apart, limit who can export either, and take the current position from your own dental council or a compliance adviser.

What we do

What we deliver for dental clinics.

Every deliverable, what it covers for you, and the result it is there to produce. Nothing here is an extra.

  1. An enquiry record that sits beside the clinical file

    A short, separate record for every person who called, walked in or messaged, whether or not they ever became a patient, kept apart from treatment notes.

    Result: The people who asked and did not book stop vanishing.

  2. Treatment asked about and figure quoted as fixed fields

    Two fields the desk fills at the time of the conversation, so the next call can open with the real treatment and the real figure.

    Result: Nobody has to ring a patient and guess what was discussed.

  3. Recall dates held as a list, not written on a card

    The next check-up, scaling or review date stored against the patient and visible as a due list inside the clinic.

    Result: The recall survives the card the patient lost.

  4. Referral source captured at the point of booking

    One question asked while the appointment is being made, recorded in a single field: the family member, the physician who suggested you, Maps, or an advertisement.

    Result: You know which source is filling the chair.

  5. Access limits agreed before any data moves

    Who may view, edit and export each record, settled in writing with your own adviser consulted on what applies to a dental practice in your state.

    Result: Patient information is not sitting in a shared download folder.

  6. The four views the owner reads

    Enquiries by treatment, quotes given and not accepted, recalls now overdue, and new patients by source, all drawn from the record the desk fills in.

    Result: You read the clinic's position instead of asking three people.

How the result is measured

  • Enquiries logged in the CRM
  • Data completeness
  • Reports generated from CRM data

Recorded as a baseline before work starts, so every later report has an honest comparison.

Read the full CRM implementation and customisation page

What to record, and when

What a dental clinic's front desk should record about every enquiry, and whether it needs software yet.

Treatment asked about
Pick from a fixed list: root canal, scaling, braces, aligners, implant, wisdom tooth, smile design, child's check-up. Free text cannot be counted, and you cannot see which treatment brings calls but few bookings.
Figure quoted on the phone
Write the number or range you quoted, and who said it. When the patient arrives and hears a different figure, the clinic loses the patient. Quote from your own printed price range and write down which one.
Booked, kept or missed
Record whether the call became an appointment and whether the patient came. A booked-but-missed patient is the call worth making the same day, before they book somewhere closer.
Recall due date
After a treatment such as scaling or a check-up, enter the date the patient is next due, and show the list of those coming due. Reminding someone is the cheapest booking a clinic gets.
Who sent them
Ask at booking and pick from a list: Google search, Maps, a patient, a referring doctor, Instagram, walk-in. Ask the question kindly and never offer a reward for a review or a referral.
Do you need software yet?
If you already run practice software for clinical notes, the enquiry sheet can sit beside it. A shared sheet is enough for one or two chairs. Keep x-rays, treatment notes and photographs in the clinical system, and limit who opens the enquiry file.

Who it is for

This is written for these dental clinics.

  • Single-dentist clinics
  • Multi-chair general dental clinics
  • Orthodontic and aligner-only practices
  • Implant and oral surgery centres
  • Cosmetic and smile-design clinics
  • Paediatric dental clinics
  • Dental clinics inside a multi-speciality centre
  • Multi-branch dental groups
  • New clinics in their first year

Not for

It is not the right fit if.

  • The clinic sees a small number of patients and tracks each one on a single sheet.
  • The desk will not log quotes as they are given.
  • The plan is to store clinical notes and X-ray images in it, which belong in the clinical record.

How it works

How the CRM work runs

The work itself, in order. How an engagement starts, from your brief to a written scope, is set out on our method page.

  1. 1

    Map the sales process

    We sit with the people who sell and write down how a deal moves from enquiry to payment, including where it stalls.

  2. 2

    Agree stages, fields and owners

    Each stage gets a name your team already uses and a proof that the deal has left it. We agree which fields are required at which stage, and who may change what.

  3. 3

    Build on a copy

    Pipeline, fields and views are built on a trial copy where the CRM offers one, or in a separate pipeline where the plan allows. Live work stays untouched.

  4. 4

    Connect channels, then switch on automations

    Channels are connected first. Each automation is then switched on separately, so a misfiring rule is easy to find.

  5. 5

    Test with real deals

    The people who will use the CRM run open deals through it. Gaps are fixed before the whole team switches over.

  6. 6

    Switch over and trim

    Once real use shows which fields stay empty and which stages nobody uses, those are cut and the handover record is updated.

Where this fits

Three pieces of sales work, in this order.

This work sits inside sales management. A target, a review routine and someone who owns the number.

  1. Step 1

    Sales audit

    Find where deals are being lost and what to fix first.

    Start here if you cannot say where orders are lost.

  2. Step 2

    Sales process design

    One written way to sell, from first enquiry to repeat order.

    Start here if every salesperson sells differently.

  3. Step 3 · you are here

    Sales management

    A target, a review routine and someone who owns the number.

    Start here if the team has targets and no routine.

Tell us what you need Your brief is read before we call. Scope, fee and term in writing.

FAQ

Questions owners ask before they call.

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We already have practice management software. Why a second record?
Most practice software begins at the point a patient is registered. It has nowhere to put the person who rang, heard a figure and never booked, and that is the group worth calling. If your software has free fields for enquiry source and quoted amount, use those rather than buying anything.
What is the shortest record that is still worth keeping?
Name, number, treatment asked about, figure quoted, who referred them, the date somebody should call next, and what happened last time. Seven fields. A receptionist will fill those in between patients. A twenty-field form the patient will not.
Patients ask for rates on WhatsApp. Where does that chat go?
Reply from the clinic's own number, and then enter the treatment asked about and the figure quoted in the enquiry record. The chat stays a chat. If the patient shares a scan or photograph, move it to the clinical file and delete it from the phone gallery.
Can we send recall reminders from this list?
Only to patients who agreed to receive them, and keep the message free of treatment detail. Record the agreement and the date beside the number. Rules on health-related messages and on advertising differ by council and change, so check with your own dental council and adviser.
How much does it cost?
There is no price list, because the work differs by business. The fee is scoped after we have read your brief and spoken to you, and put in writing before anything starts, split into our time, your media spend and production.
How long is the contract?
The term is agreed in writing after we have spoken, along with the fee and the reporting. It is never a default twelve months, and renewal is decided on the numbers against the baseline recorded at the start.
How soon will we see results?
It depends on the trade, the channel and what is already in place. After we have read your brief and spoken to you, we say what we would expect to move first and how it will be measured against the baseline. Nothing here is guaranteed.
Who will actually do the work?
The person you speak to before anything starts. We work from one office in Nagarbhavi, Bengaluru, with no account managers in between.
What do you need from us?
Your brief, and a conversation. After that, access to whatever this work touches, such as your website, your accounts or your enquiry record, and time with the people who handle your enquiries.
What if we are not happy with the work?
Tell us and the plan changes. Everything is reported against the baseline, so a number that is not moving is visible to both sides. The term is in your written scope, and the refund and cancellation policy sets out the rest.

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