I’ve gone into the long list of reasons why the public wants immediate implant procedures such as AO4/6, etc.

There are millions of patients in terminal dentitions and millions who will enter that category during their life and every patient in this category is interested in options. One thing is certain, they do NOT want the dentures they saw their parents suffer with (or not wear at all!).

While ortho and cosmetics will always have an audience in dentate patients, we are in a 20-30 year expansion period in the segment of patients not exposed to fluoride or who lacked good preventive care or who weren’t lucky in the genetic dice role who need an ‘exit ramp’ from a terminal dentition to their ‘third set’ of teeth with dental implants.

Critical Concepts

Before we cover likely advertising cost ranges for these cases, it’s important to know the THREE CRITICAL CONCEPTS that impact advertising for and the sales of the AO4/All-on-X case.

Previously I covered CONCEPT #1 – there is a minimum advertising budget required to ‘open the door’ to full arch cases in each market area. If you are below the budget level for 3 archers per month, it is not the game or arena for you.

When we are at the minimum budget, there are sufficient phone calls to ultimately see enough consults and present enough cases to have at least 3 arches going into treatment each month.

At the three arch per month threshold, the economics and time commitment to be involved with full arch AOX implant cases makes sense – you as a clinician can repeat the procedure enough to be a master of it and you have a sufficient return economically to reward you.

It also makes my team and my time worth it as we want to be efficient with our ongoing repetitive efforts as an ad agency that translates into patients being treated by our members. Thus, we are just as concerned about a wise use of productive time as our members.

#2 – The SECOND BIG CONCEPT is the following: there is ALWAYS and ONLY a limited number of very best advertising messages about immediate loading AOX implant modalities that resonate to a lay-person (also called the check writer!).

These best messages matter a LOT in advertising for the AO4 case.

Putting Them All Together

PUTTING THESE BEST NON-CLINICAL MESSAGES INTO ADVERTISING ARE WHAT CREATES INTEREST, CALLS, CONSULTS, CASES, and CHECKS month after month.

Agencies that haven’t spent a decade plus specializing in full arch implant advertising or 17+ years tweaking advertising copy and headlines in ‘old media’ to beat their ad controls simply don’t have the best messages when they go to market and as a result practices get disappointing results.

Not understanding #2 means that docs waste time with marketing groups or agencies that don’t understand the AO4X patient market, or they buy into an advertising concept where they pour all their money into one thing (eg. a high end glossy magazine), or they try to direct a local media person to write ads and the typical results are messages that are too technical for patients to notice or care about or they are brand awareness ads which is a complete waste of ad dollars for businesses of our size. What routinely appeals to you my dear doctor in a logical or visual fashion is not what appeals to the patient with the problem who will write the check.

Helping You Understand

We’ve been at this game for 17+ years and have launched every form of advertising in existence in more than 50+ global markets. We’ve been writing, re-writing, and working to beat our control ads for longer than anyone else in the game. We’ve literally been doing this since before some of our competitors were born. We know what works and what doesn’t as a result of all that history. Our members get that history backing them. Why not have the same thing backing your practice for your cases?

The #1 thing any of us can do in business is find the path to get what we want in the least amount of time. That is THE biggest reason why new members decide to add us to their team. They want to move as quickly as possible to having their full arch cases month after month.

If you realize that you’d like to minimize the time being wasted to get to your desired case goals, let’s have a 1:1 discussion about your practice now.

To have a one-on-one discussion about all of this with Dr. McAnally, click here to schedule a meeting.