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Dental groups wire recare as a machine, not a card box at each front deskNew patient, recare, and unscheduled treatment are three journeys. One 'we miss you' is not a DSO.

DSOs inherit a brand. Recare still lives in paper or a PMS the CRM never sees. This vertical wires new-patient speed, two-way reminders, recare clocks, unscheduled treatment as its own journey, and location-correct review asks — with HQ definitions locked so 'recare due' means the same in every site.

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The short version

Intern through CEO

DSOs inherit a brand. Recare still lives in paper or a PMS the CRM never sees. This vertical wires new-patient speed, two-way reminders, recare clocks, unscheduled treatment as its own journey, and location-correct review asks — with HQ definitions locked so 'recare due' means the same in every site.

  1. 01

    The weekly HQ number is recare-due contacts with an appointment or a task, and new-patient speed-to-lead. Holes in the schedule you cannot name are the leak.

  2. 02

    GHL is not a PMS. Do not rebuild charting. Do write the marketing/recall journeys the PMS will not run well.

  3. 03

    After-hours missed calls book the group that texts. Honest SMS now, not morning-only.

  4. 04

    Locations will invent postcard language. The journeys stay locked. Copy can have local hours.

  5. 05

    If PMS and GHL disagree on the person, identity is the first ticket — not more ads.

Who

Same system. Three jobs.

Read your row

Intern

What you actually do

Split, SMS test, due-list sample. You are not designing a logo for the DSO.

Operator

What you protect

Three journeys. Identity with PMS. HQ definitions. After-hours honest. Reviews after visits.

CEO

What you refuse to fund

Schedule holes you cannot name are a system failure. Recare coverage and speed-to-lead are DSO numbers, not front-desk personality.

Wire

How to connect it

Objects, then edges

PMS vs GHL (what each owns), new-patient inquiry, appointment, recare_due_date, unscheduled_treatment, missed-call SMS, GBP per location, HQ recare coverage %, two-way confirm.

  1. 01

    Phone/web inquiry → GHL contact + speed path; PMS gets the appointment as the clinical record

  2. 02

    Completed new patient → recare_due set; not a postcard hope

  3. 03

    Unscheduled treatment → journey, not the recare blast

  4. 04

    Review ask after a completed visit, location URL correct

Steps

Do this in order

Why, then done when
  1. 01

    Draw PMS vs GHL jobs

    Clinical in PMS. Inquiry, recare journeys, reviews, missed-call in GHL — or admit GHL is decoration.

    Why: Two full CRMs is folklore.

    Done when: A one-page split.

  2. 02

    New-patient speed

    Web/phone write GHL. SMS under SLA. Source tags.

    Why: Paid demand into a pad is a DSO tax.

    Done when: Test inquiry in minutes.

  3. 03

    Recare_due as a field

    From PMS export or a process. Journey: due, booked, completed. HQ coverage %.

    Why: Card boxes do not roll up.

    Done when: A location’s due list exists in GHL or a synced field.

  4. 04

    Unscheduled as its own path

    Do not mix with recare copy.

    Why: Treatment plans are not 'we miss you'.

    Done when: Two workflows, two tones.

  5. 05

    Location GBP

    Review journey uses the site’s listing.

    Why: Wrong listing is how you decorate a neighbor.

    Done when: Location A test gets listing A.

What an intern should wire first

Split page PMS/GHL. Test missed-call SMS. Sample recare_due in GHL. Unscheduled vs recare copy check. One location GBP test.

What DSO leadership should refuse

More locations on ads, a postcard vendor, or a new PMS module as a substitute for recare coverage %. Coverage is the number.

The usual failure

Brand ads. Card box recare. Pad for phones. Reviews at checkout panic. HQ 'recare %' from a story. That is a dental group with a marketing logo.

The weekly number

Recare-due with a next appointment or task, new-patient speed-to-lead, missed-call recover. Definitions locked across sites.

Why

Questions people actually ask

Pushback is normal

Our PMS has recall.

If it runs two-way SMS, speed-to-lead, and HQ coverage you believe, GHL may be thinner. If recall is a mail merge, GHL is the machine.

Front desk will not use two systems.

Then GHL must be the inquiry/SMS layer they actually see, or you accepted the pad. Training is day-1, not optional.

Can HQ blast all patients?

Not recare and new-patient and treatment in one send. Journeys are the product.

This week

This week: PMS vs GHL split, recare_due sample, missed-call SMS, unscheduled path separate, one GBP test. No group-wide blast.

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