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The NHS list and Doctify list you. A dental website is where a patient decides

Yes. The NHS list and Doctify do their jobs, one says whether you're taking patients, the other holds reviews you can't buy, and neither reaches the person who has put off the dentist for six years and is deciding tonight. That person searches Google, opens a website, and books. Right now the website they open isn't yours.

Why your own site finds new customers

Search and AI read the open web. Google, ChatGPT and Claude fetch pages at addresses like yourpractice.co.uk. A profile inside a directory is not always something they can fetch. If the only description of your practice out there was written into a listing's fields, that's the version anything reading about you has to work from.

With your own site you own the exact words people search for. Invisalign. Emergency appointment today. Teeth whitening. Children's dentistry. What an NHS check-up actually covers, and what it doesn't. Each one can have a page, written in the language the patient uses rather than the language on a treatment plan, and a directory field has nowhere to put any of it. A patient comparing two practices on price for a crown is reading for the number and the reason behind it, and the page that gives them both is the one they ring.

It also gives you room to reassure, which is the part that decides a nervous patient. A first visit for somebody who has avoided a chair for years is a page you can write in your own words, with your own team on it and your own tone of voice. That's the difference between them booking with you and clicking the next name down, and by then they have already decided they want a dentist. They're choosing which one.

How we make it simple

Everything starts from your Google Business Profile. The hours, the phone number, the address and the reviews Google is already showing become the foundation of the site, so a patient ringing at half past eight gets the right number and nobody on your team entered it twice.

From the treatments on that listing we make a page each, and an FAQ out of the questions your reviews keep raising: taking on new NHS patients, what an emergency appointment costs, parking, whether there's a payment plan, how long an implant takes from the first appointment to the last. A page for nervous patients is the kind of page a site of your own can carry, and it's yours to add.

The technical work a dental marketing agency bills monthly for is part of the build. The site is written to be indexed by Google and read by ChatGPT: pages of real text, structured data describing the practice, a sitemap, and the whole thing submitted to Google and Bing at go-live. Google can show a page at your address, under your practice's name, working for one practice.

Give us the practice name and we come back within one working day with the first version, with nothing to write beforehand and no proofs to sign off between patients. When something changes, you tell us and we update the site, so a new opening time or a treatment you've stopped offering is one email and not a job for somebody's Friday afternoon.

How they work together

The NHS list carries on telling people whether you take NHS patients, and Doctify carries on carrying the reviews that reassure them once they've found you. Neither of those jobs moves. Your own site takes the search that happens before either of them, and the booking or the phone call at the end of it comes to you directly, from a page with no other practices on it. If you take bookings through practice software, that link sits behind the Book button and the appointment lands in the same diary it lands in now.

Point the website field of your Google Business Profile at your own domain. That's the link most people press once Google has shown them your name, and it should open a page about your practice rather than a shared listing. Your Facebook page and any printed leaflet can point at the same address, so everything you own sends people to one place instead of four.

What you pay

£30 a month. A real site with a page for each treatment, built from your Google listing, on your own .co.uk or .com. Hosting, updates and the changes you ask for are in that figure, so nothing renews on its own and nothing arrives as a surprise. We check every page before you see it, and you read it before you pay. Cancel any month, and the domain is yours to keep. Across a year that is one new patient.

Put your practice's name into our dental page and we'll build one from your Google listing. Look at yours before you decide.

Have a look before you decide

Tell us your business name and how to reach you. We build a site from your Google listing and get in touch within one working day. It's £30 a month if you keep it, and you can cancel any month.