What Is Orthodontic Marketing Consulting?

Orthodontic marketing consulting helps practices make more strategic decisions about how they attract, convert, and retain patients.

At Rootwell Consulting Group, we start by understanding the practice before recommending another campaign, platform, agency, or marketing expense.
Where are your patients coming from? Which efforts are producing results? Where are potential patients getting lost? How does your practice compare within your market? And are your marketing partners working toward the same goals?
From there, we develop a strategy based on the opportunities that make the most sense for your practice.

Depending on your needs, orthodontic marketing consulting may include:

Fractional CMO Services

Marketing Assessment & Opportunity Analysis

Brand Strategy & Positioning

Growth Marketing Strategy

New Patient Funnel Optimization

Marketing Budget & ROI Planning

Referral Tracking & Strategy

Website, SEO & AI Search Recommendations

Marketing Technology & CRM Strategy

Agency & Vendor Leadership

KPI Tracking & Performance Analysis

Ongoing Strategic Marketing Oversight

More Marketing Isn’t Always the Answer.

When a practice wants to grow, the instinct is often to generate more leads.

But before investing more money in attracting new patients, it’s important to understand what is happening with the opportunities you already have.

Are leads becoming scheduled consultations? Are scheduled patients showing up? Are consultations becoming starts? Are observation patients being effectively re-engaged? Do you know which referral and marketing channels are actually producing patients?

Start With the Full Patient Acquisition Picture.
We look at the data, the patient journey, and the systems surrounding your marketing to understand where the greatest opportunities may already exist. Sometimes the opportunity is generating more demand. Sometimes it’s converting more of the demand you already have.

Fractional CMO Leadership for Orthodontic Practices

As an orthodontic practice grows, marketing can quickly become a collection of agencies, vendors, software platforms, campaigns, internal responsibilities, and individual tactics.


Someone still needs to connect the dots.

Rootwell Consulting Group’s Fractional CMO services provide executive-level marketing leadership without requiring your practice to hire a full-time Chief Marketing Officer.

 

We help establish the strategy, determine priorities, align marketing partners, evaluate performance, and provide ongoing oversight so your marketing efforts are working together toward the practice’s larger goals.

Marketing Services for Orthodontic Practices

Meet Your Treatment Coordinator Consultants

Our team brings decades of hands-on orthodontic experience and a deep understanding of what it takes to succeed in the Treatment Coordinator role. We have worked inside the New Patient Process, led patient and financial conversations, followed up with uncommitted patients, built relationships with families, and experienced firsthand the challenges TCs face every day.

Rootwell Consulting Group combines real-world experience with practical, individualized coaching to help Treatment Coordinators build confidence, strengthen communication, create meaningful connections with patients and families, improve follow-up, understand their numbers, and deliver a consistent New Patient Experience from the initial phone call through the beginning of treatment.

Jessica Bryson

Co-Founder | Business Optimization Strategist

Stacey Bybee

Co-Founder | Practice Growth Strategist

Emili Duvall

Orthodontic Consultant | Operations & Systems Implementation Coach 

Orthodontic Marketing Consulting FAQs

What does an orthodontic marketing consultant do?
An orthodontic marketing consultant helps practices evaluate their current marketing, identify growth opportunities, develop strategy, improve patient acquisition and conversion, measure performance, and make more informed decisions about where to invest marketing resources. Rootwell Consulting Group takes a broader approach by looking at marketing in the context of the entire practice, including the New Patient Process, referral channels, technology, operations, brand, and growth goals.
A Fractional CMO provides executive-level marketing strategy and leadership without requiring the practice to employ a full-time Chief Marketing Officer. Depending on the practice, that may include developing marketing strategy, establishing budgets and priorities, overseeing agencies and vendors, evaluating KPIs and ROI, guiding brand positioning, selecting technology, and providing ongoing strategic oversight.
Yes. A marketing assessment can evaluate your current strategy, brand, website, SEO and AI search presence, advertising, social media, reviews, referral channels, technology, agencies, patient acquisition systems, lead conversion, reporting, and marketing spend. The purpose isn’t simply to produce a list of things that could be changed. It’s to identify which opportunities matter most and establish priorities based on your goals.
Yes. You don’t necessarily need to replace your current marketing partners. Rootwell Consulting Group can provide strategic leadership across your existing agencies and vendors, helping establish direction, coordinate efforts, review performance, and keep everyone aligned with the practice’s goals and brand strategy.
Yes. We can evaluate your existing marketing spend, growth goals, current performance, competitive environment, and strategic priorities to help develop a more intentional marketing budget. We also help establish systems for measuring performance so future budget decisions can be increasingly informed by results.
Yes. Marketing performance doesn’t stop when a lead contacts your practice. We can evaluate lead tracking, response, nurturing, scheduling, follow-up, consultation performance, and other points along the patient journey to identify where opportunities may be getting lost.
Yes. Fractional CMO services can provide ongoing strategic oversight based on the needs of your practice. That may include KPI reviews, agency management, campaign and creative feedback, marketing planning, technology strategy, content direction, referral strategy, and ongoing identification of growth opportunities.

Make Every Marketing Decision More Intentional.

You don’t need another marketing trend.
You need clarity around what’s working, where opportunities exist, and what your practice should do next.

Rootwell Consulting Group provides orthodontic marketing consulting and Fractional CMO services to connect your brand, patient acquisition strategy, technology, marketing partners, and data around one clear growth strategy.