Dr. Kyle Fagala, DDS, MDS, is the President and co-founder of Neon Canvas and a board-certified orthodontist, certified by the American Board of Orthodontics. He holds a DDS and a Master of Dental Science with an orthodontic certificate from the University of Tennessee Health Science Center in Memphis (2013). He owns Saddle Creek Orthodontics, teaches Development of Occlusion at UTHSC, and hosts The Digital Orthodontist: Live! He is a 3M Oral Care Key Opinion Leader, an AAO speaker, and the author of two children's books. At Neon Canvas, he brings what he learns running his own practice to the marketing systems the team builds for orthodontic and dental practices.
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You opened your second location because the first one worked. The team culture was good, patients were happy, the brand had meaning in the community. Then the second location opened — and suddenly everything that felt natural at one location became a set of questions you hadn’t anticipated. Does the second location have its own… Read More
A family drives 25 minutes to your office for a consultation. They sit with your treatment coordinator for 40 minutes. They leave saying they’ll “think about it.” Two weeks later, you call. No answer. You leave a message. You follow up once more. Nothing. The case never starts. Every orthodontic practice has a version of… Read More
Someone fills out your contact form at 9pm on a Thursday. They found you through a Google search, looked at your before-and-afters, liked what they saw, and typed in their name, phone number, and a quick note: ‘Interested in Invisalign for myself.’ They submit the form, close their laptop, and go to bed. By Friday… Read More
A practice in Nashville was getting about 25 new patients a month, spending modestly on Google Ads, and had been relatively flat for two years. A consultant looked at their marketing and couldn’t immediately find an obvious problem. The ads were decent. The website was reasonable. The location was good. Then he looked at the… Read More
A practice owner sits down at his desk after closing on a Friday afternoon and pulls up the invoices from the past quarter. There’s the website agency, the SEO retainer, the Google Ads spend, the social media management fee, and somewhere in there a sponsorship for the local 5K he can’t remember agreeing to. The… Read More
You scroll through an orthodontic practice’s Instagram and see what you’ve seen a hundred times before: a grinning teenager holding an ‘I got my braces off!’ sign, a Valentine’s Day graphic with a pun about loving straight teeth, a stock photo of clear aligners on a white background. It’s not bad, exactly. It’s just forgettable.… Read More
Every month, your marketing agency sends you a report. It’s got a lot of numbers in it — impressions, reach, clicks, follower counts, engagement rates, ad frequency, cost per click. The charts look good. The arrows are pointing up. And yet, at your next team meeting, someone asks how many new patients you started last… Read More
You’re sitting in a parent-teacher conference, and the teacher mentions that a few kids in the class have started wearing expanders. One parent leans over and whispers, ‘I had no idea you could do orthodontics this young.’ That moment — the casual conversation, the mild shock, the sudden curiosity — is exactly where orthodontic growth… Read More
Someone in your city just typed “orthodontist near me” into Google. They’re sitting in traffic, or waiting to pick up their kid from soccer practice, or lying in bed wondering if it’s finally time to do something about their teen’s teeth. They’re not browsing — they’re ready to act. The question is whether they find… Read More
Invisalign marketing for orthodontistsShe’s 34 years old and has thought about straightening her teeth for at least a decade. She got busy with school, then a career, then kids. She knows Invisalign exists. She’s seen ads. She’s watched a few YouTube videos. But she’s never quite done anything about it — partly because she’s not… Read More
A single full-arch implant case can generate more revenue than a hundred hygiene appointments. You know this. Your team knows this. But if your schedule is a mix of routine care with the occasional implant consultation scattered in, you’re likely leaving significant revenue on the table — not because you lack the clinical skills, but… Read More
Think about the last time you chose a new doctor, dentist, or specialist. At some point in your research, you probably looked for something that told you what this person was actually like — not just their credentials, but whether you’d feel comfortable in a room with them. Maybe it was a photo. Maybe it… Read More