Dentists For You Are Available, So Keep Searching

What are you looking for in a dentist? Do you want skill, quality work man ship and a comforting bed side manner? Are you willing to settle for less than what you need and deserve because looking for those traits in a potential dentist requires too much effort and work to find? If you answered yes to that last part you probably found your current dentist by chance. You probably cold called from the long list of dentists in the phone book and stopped somewhere in the A section without doing any research or asking any questions. And you’re probably not overly thrilled by your dentist of choice but figure you can’t do any better. And you’re probably right. You won’t do any better if you resort to finding your next dentist by using the same technique as you used to find your last one and your current one.

So you need a better way to find dentists. Cold calling is time consuming and really not effective. After all what do you ask a dentist on the phone to narrow your selection pool down from thousands to one? Take the cue from how people date and follow that as your lead. No, that doesn’t mean date your potential new dentists, but it does mean use the internet in your search.

Just as there are local dating sites to help you find a mate, there are local consumer based web sites that can help you find a local dentist that can live up to your highest expectations and then some. Consumer based web sites work because they are run by consumers, not companies that get paid to push a particular dentist or two. Consumer web sites offer up written reviews and ratings of the local dentist in your town by real time patients, both past and present so what you read is real. More importantly the reviews use their real names so there are no anonymous reviews that lack credibility. This adds a real layer of trust where you need to have it and you know the reviews aren’t just paid blurbs by fictional patients.

Once you pick out a few dentists that meet your criteria you can do that cold calling to verify things like hours, location and types of insurance they take and then you can schedule an appointment for a meet and greet or a check up and make sure you’re a match.

After you try this method to find your next dentists you’re going to wonder why you ever tried to find a dentist any other way.