Dental clinics · WhatsApp marketing

Answer the photo of a broken tooth that arrives at eleven at night.

For most clinics WhatsApp is now the front door: a picture of a chipped tooth, a question about aligner cost, a request to move tomorrow's slot. It is also the easiest place to irritate a patient and to leave their photographs where anyone can scroll them. GullySales sets up the business number, the replies and the rules around both.

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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 WhatsApp marketing means

WhatsApp marketing is sending updates, offers and reminders to customers on the app most Indian buyers already check daily. GullySales sets up business WhatsApp, writes the message templates and keeps the list consented and current.

Also for dental clinics

Sales and marketing for dental clinics, the overview.

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.

“The first message is a photograph, not a question”
Somebody sends a picture of a broken front tooth and waits. A reply saying please visit the clinic loses them. A reply that names what the visit will involve and offers two slots tomorrow books them.
“A broadcast about whitening is advertising, and dentistry restricts advertising”
Rules on how a dental practice may promote treatment differ between councils and change, so take the current position from yours before any offer reaches a patient list. There is a practical cost too: patients who never agreed to it report the number, and a reported number stops delivering.
“The clinic number is a shared handset”
Intraoral photographs, x-ray pictures and a patient's reports sit in a gallery anyone at the desk can scroll through. Put the number on a business account, decide who holds access, and get the rest off the phone.

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.

A business account running on the clinic's own number
Verified profile, address, hours and treatment list set up properly, with the dentist's personal handset taken out of the enquiry loop.
Result: Patients message the clinic, not somebody's private phone.
Saved replies for the four messages you get every day
Ready answers for the photograph of a broken tooth, the cost question, the slot change and the directions request, each one ending in an offer of a time.
Result: The desk answers in seconds instead of retyping the same thing.
A written rule on who sees patient photographs
Access to the handset, what gets deleted, what is moved into the patient record, and what is never forwarded to a staff group.
Result: A patient's mouth is not in somebody's camera roll.
Consent taken at booking and recorded once
A single question when the appointment is made, about reminders and messages, with the answer stored against the patient.
Result: You can show who agreed to be messaged.
Reminder wording kept to the appointment itself
The message that goes out before a slot carries the date, the time and the dentist's name, and carries nothing else.
Result: Reminders stay welcome instead of turning into promotion.
Enquiries from the number counted separately
Messages, replies and bookings arriving on WhatsApp tracked against the enquiry baseline recorded before the work started.
Result: You can see what the number is worth beside the phone line.

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How the result is measured

Messages delivered
Reply rate
Enquiries from WhatsApp

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

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What must be in place first

Settle these before the clinic number is used for patients.

Consent at the front desk: Add WhatsApp permission to the registration form and record it once on the patient file, with the number to use. A number given to book a slot is not agreement to treatment offers.
Photographs moved to the patient file: Decide that photographs and X-rays sent in chat are moved to the patient file and removed from the handset gallery. A lost clinic phone full of mouths is a privacy problem.
Advertising rules for the profession: Rules on how dentists may advertise differ and change, so check your own dental council's current guidance before any broadcast about a treatment. When unsure, keep messages to the appointment itself.
Templates for reminders and check-ins: A reminder or a post-treatment check you start yourself may need an approved template, and may be charged separately. Check WhatsApp's current business policy and pricing.
What the desk may say about a photograph: Tell front-desk staff what they can say from a photo, such as that you should be seen, and what only the dentist can say. Route clinical questions to the dentist or to a booked visit.
An away message with hours: State clinic hours and what a patient with severe swelling or bleeding should do. Do not promise a night reply, because a patient who waits for one may delay getting care.

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 desk uses a personal phone and has no business number set up.
The plan is bulk broadcasts of offers to every contact.
Nobody will answer a message that arrives in the evening, leaving patients with a pain waiting.

How it works

How the whatsapp marketing 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
Read the chats you already have
We read how customers write to you, which questions repeat and where a chat goes quiet. The repeated questions decide what gets automated first.
2
Sort the list and the permission
Contacts who asked to hear from you are separated from numbers that only sit in a phone book. We agree the wording new contacts will see before they say yes.
3
Choose the app or the API
One phone and a small team can stay on the ordinary app. Several people on one number, templates or a CRM link need the API through a provider, which is its own piece of setup work.
4
Write the replies and the plan
The greeting, away message, saved replies and handover rule are written in your words and approved by you. The message plan and its templates follow.
5
Connect the record and test
Each link carries its source line and each chat lands in the CRM. We test on real phones, including a customer who asks for a person.
6
Read the unanswered questions
A question the first reply could not answer becomes a new saved reply or a fixed handover. Stop requests are watched too, with the number's quality rating where the API is used, since both show a message plan that has gone too far.

Where this fits

Three pieces of sales work, in this order.

This work sits inside sales process design, at stage 0, foundation. The audit comes before it, and sales management keeps it running.

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.
Step 2 · you are here
Sales process design
One written way to sell, from first enquiry to repeat order.
Start here if every salesperson sells differently.
Step 3
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.

Not here? More answers, or ask on WhatsApp.

Tell us what you need

Can we send appointment reminders on WhatsApp?

Yes, where the patient agreed to it at booking and the message is about their own appointment. Keep it to the date, the time and who they are seeing. A reminder is not the place to add an offer on whitening.

Should we put treatment prices in the WhatsApp catalogue?

Only what you can state flatly, such as a consultation fee or a cleaning. An implant figure depends on the bone, the brand and the number of sittings, and a catalogue price you cannot hold becomes an argument at the desk. Check with your council what a practice in your state may publish.

Can we send a treatment plan and estimate over WhatsApp?

To the patient who asked, yes, as a document showing the dentist's name and date. Consent to treatment is still taken at the clinic. Keep a copy in the file and share with relatives only if the patient agrees.

A patient asks to see another patient's case. Can we send photos?

No, not without that patient's written consent, and rules on showing treatment results differ by council. Say the dentist can discuss what is likely at consultation. Do not forward anyone's photographs.

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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