Dream Smiles Dental

Packages

Launchpad, The Waitlist method, Acquisition engine + CMO

Date

2024 (pre launch) - April 2026

The brief

Principal dentist, Dr Naveed Patel, approached founder Mahaim Saud twelve months before his squat practice existed. No patients. No brand presence.

Just a vision to build something genuinely premium and different in a market full of indistinguishable dental practices. The brief was straightforward. Build the marketing infrastructure from scratch, position Dream Smiles as the premium choice from day one, and have the diaries full of high-value patients before the doors opened.

Then he said something that set the tone for everything that followed."I've built something beautiful. You need to do it justice online. The physical presence is there — now build that online."

And then: "I want us to be the best dental practice in the country."

A daunting brief. She accepted it.

The challenge

A squat practice faces a challenge no established clinic does. There is no patient base to inherit, no reputation to trade on, no existing trust to leverage. Every patient has to be earned from zero — in a market where most practices have years of reviews and community recognition behind them.

Most squat practices spend their first twelve to eighteen months running at a loss, accumulating patients slowly and hoping the numbers eventually work. The principal dentist wanted a different outcome entirely.

What made this harder still was a deliberate decision made from the very beginning. Dr Naveed Patel didn't want the brand built on his name, his face, or his following. No founder-led content. No personal profile to lean on. No shortcut of an existing audience to seed the launch.

For months, we built with almost none of the assets most healthcare brands consider essential. Little to no video with a clinician on camera. No authority figure to anchor the content. Back office staff in video, static imagery, and a brand with no recognisable face behind it — no online personal brand to borrow trust from.

In aesthetics and dentistry, founder-led content is almost always the cheat code. Patients follow the person before they trust the clinic. We didn't have that option.

So we built something most clinics never have to build — a brand strong enough to earn trust entirely on its own. And then we filled the diary with it.

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What we built

Premium patient strategy — Authority Positioning Before any campaign was created, we mapped the premium patient personas in detail — who they were, what language they used, what made them trust a clinic enough to commit to £2,000–£30,000 of treatment. Every decision that followed was built on that foundation.

Tone of voice and copywriting — Exclusivity Cues We developed the complete brand voice and wrote everything — page-by-page website copy mapped to the patient decision journey, working closely with the developers on UX and UI to ensure the copy and the experience worked together, not separately.

Patient journey mapping and systems — Trust Architecture We mapped the complete patient journey from first awareness through to retention. CRM integration, automation frameworks, and nurturing sequences — built so that by launch day, every enquiry was captured, followed up, and guided toward a booking without anything falling through the cracks.

Social media and creative campaigns — built from zero Every social channel was built from scratch with a commercial purpose at every stage. But what set Dream Smiles apart was the creative work behind the campaigns.

A dreamy CGI sleep campaign that stopped the scroll entirely. A Black Friday campaign — The Steal of the Year — that hijacked the Louvre robbery news cycle and turned it into a cinematic story about stolen smile makeovers. Every campaign was built around a concept, a narrative, and an execution that made people feel something.

This wasn't content. It was creative strategy that happened to live on social media.

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The Waitlist Method  — diaries full before opening

Our launch strategy — now formalised as The Waitlist Method — was built around a single objective: a fully booked diary before the practice opened. We ran the complete pre-launch acquisition campaign including the paid ads, the creative strategy, and the physical campaign visuals outside the clinic itself. We built genuine anticipation, captured deposits, and filled the appointment book with new patient consultations before a single patient had walked through the door.

The practice opened not with empty chairs and nervous hope, but with a full diary of high-value patients booked in for treatments ranging from £2,000 to £30,000 — and an exceptionally high conversion rate, because the quality of lead coming through the door had been engineered from the very start.

Invisalign open days— rebranded, relaunched, and sold out

Invisalign open days are a staple in dentistry. Every practice runs one. Most look exactly the same — a discounted scan, a promotional poster, and a quiet waiting room.

We did something different.

We took the concept and gave it its own identity entirely. Aligned by Dream Smiles Dental. Its own name, its own creative, its own narrative. Not a dental promotion dressed up — a genuine event that people actually wanted to attend. Branded cakes. Matcha. An atmosphere that felt exclusive and worth showing up for.

What was, in reality, an Invisalign consultation, a promotional offer, and an iTero scan — became a ticketed event with a waiting list. We created the kind of FOMO that most dental practices don't think is possible in their industry. People didn't want to miss out. They asked to be on the list. They told their friends.

The campaign sold out. The following year we ran it again across two days— bigger footprint, greater reach, even stronger results. A repeatable branded commercial event that generated significant treatment revenue while building the kind of community reputation that no ad campaign can buy.

The concept was entirely ours. The buzz was real.

Community and charity campaigns

We conceived and led a programme of charity and community campaigns that positioned Dream Smiles as a business genuinely embedded in its local area and community — not just a dental practice. These campaigns generated press coverage, organic word-of-mouth, and a depth of community trust that no paid advertising can replicate.

National award strategy

We led every aspect of the award entries — identifying the right categories, building the case studies, and writing the submissions to speak directly to the judging criteria. This was a deliberate positioning strategy, not an afterthought, and it delivered results on the biggest stage in UK dentistry.

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The Outcome

From 0 to hitting 6 figures monthly.

The practice opened with 250 patients already booked into the diary — each one valued at between £2,000 and £30,000 of treatment. Not enquiries. Not leads. Booked patients, with deposits paid, waiting to walk through the door on day one.

From there, the practice didn't slowly build toward profitability the way most squat practices do. It hit the ground running and didn't stop. Consistent six-figure revenue months — the kind most dental practices spend years working toward, if they get there at all.

We don't share specific client figures. But a squat practice hitting revenue milestones that established practices spend decades working toward tells its own story.

0 to 4 fully running surgeries — from a single-surgery practice built from nothing to four surgeries running at capacity.

Two consecutive sell-out Invisalign campaigns — with year two delivering greater revenue and reach than year one, built on a proprietary campaign brand we created from scratch.

A Black Friday campaign that generated the biggest single month of revenue in the practice's history.

A foundation that compounds — every system, framework, and piece of copy built during this period is still generating patients. The work was designed to last, not just to launch.

4 national award wins at the UK's most prestigious dental industry awards:

  • Best Dental Practice — UK (the headline award of the night)
  • Best Dental Practice — North
  • Best New Practice — North
  • Best Practice Brand and Design — North

Recognised as the best dental practice in the country. A squat practice, less than 10 months old, beating practices with decades of heritage behind them. Something largely unheard of in UK dentistry.

 Dream smiles dental award team

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