Generated video vs personal video

You choose how each consultation is delivered under 5. Delivery method on the grading screen.

Which should I use?

Each one suits a different situation.

Step 5, Delivery method, on the grading screen: generated video, personal video or text message
Personal VideoThe best way to build rapport. Use it whenever you have the time.
Generated VideoWhen you're short on time, have a lot of submissions to get through, or for patients who seem less likely to go ahead.
Text messageFor simple questions, or when a full consultation isn't the right fit yet.

Generated Video

We turn your findings into a personalised, narrated video. You check the findings and the script, and we put the rest together for you.

Needs: the team member's welcome video, and at least one finding. If they haven't recorded a welcome video yet, this option is greyed out with a link to record one.

1. Check your findings

AI-drafted findings to check before sending: concerns, positives and why the treatment fits, each mapped to teeth

The AI drafts your findings from the patient's photos. There are three kinds:

  • Concerns (up to 4): what could be improved. Each one is read out in turn and shown on the teeth map.
  • Positives (up to 2): what's already good about their smile, so the video feels balanced and reassuring.
  • Why the treatment fits (up to 3 per treatment): how each treatment you recommend helps this patient.

You can edit, reorder, delete or add findings, and mark the teeth each one is about. See Using the teeth map.

2. Preview the spoken script

The spoken script of a generated video consultation: concerns, positives, treatment, timeframe and estimated price

Press Preview spoken video script to see how your findings become the words in the video:

  • each concern and positive gets its own line
  • the reasons a treatment fits are combined into one paragraph about your recommendation
  • the timeframe and price get a line each

Every line shown is read out over the graphics. Click any of them to change the wording, and your version is what's said. Fixed lines, like Ben's introduction, are added between them. They aren't shown here and can't be changed.

Tip: Regenerate new script writes fresh lines from your current findings, and replaces any you edited. Get your findings right first, then make your edits.

3. How the video is put together

When you send, we build the video in this order:

A dental practice team member's welcome video opening the patient's video consultation
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Welcome videoYour team member's welcome video opens the consultation.
Ben, the virtual smile consultant, introducing the patient's personalised video consultation
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Virtual consult introThe patient is greeted by name, then Ben, our virtual smile consultant, explains what's coming.
Video consultation scene: upper and lower crowding highlighted on a teeth map beside the patient's smile photos
3
ConcernsEach concern is read out while its teeth are highlighted beside the patient's photos.
Video consultation scene: strong, natural-looking front teeth shown beside the patient's smile photos
4
PositivesWhat's already good about their smile, shown the same way.
Before and after smile simulation for clear aligners and teeth whitening, with the recommended treatments
5
Potential resultsTheir before and after, with the treatments you've recommended and why they fit.
Clear aligners explainer video presented by the virtual smile consultant
6
Explainer videoThe explainer for each treatment, in the order you chose them.
Treatment journey in the video consultation: an estimated 13 to 19 months, from consultation to completed smile
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TimeframeThe estimated treatment time, and the steps of their treatment journey.
Estimated cost of clear aligners and teeth whitening in the video consultation, with the total and monthly finance
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CostThe estimated cost of each treatment, the total and your featured payment option.
The virtual smile consultant closing the consultation with payment options and how to book
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Next stepsBen wraps up with payment options and how to book.

Takes: about 5 minutes to prepare after you send. The patient is notified when it's ready.

Personal Video

You record or upload your own video. We add subtitles, then the explainer videos for the treatments you recommend.

1. Choose whether to show a teeth map

Personal video set-up: show a teeth map in your video, the mapped concerns, and record now or upload a video

Tick Show a teeth map in your video before you start. Your concerns appear underneath, so you can check them and map their teeth first. See Using the teeth map.

2. Record or upload

Press Record now to use your webcam, or Upload a video (MP4, MOV or WebM, up to 500 MB).

Talk the patient through what you noticed, what you recommend and what happens next.

3. Show cards while you record

Recording a personal video consultation, with a teeth map card in the corner and finding chips to click

Under the camera you'll see buttons you can click while you talk:

  • Teeth map: each concern you've mapped. Click one and its teeth map appears in the top corner of your video.
  • Treatment plan: Treatment time, Treatment cost and Payment option.
Recording a personal video consultation with the estimated treatment cost card showing in the corner

Click the same button again to go back to just you. Only one card shows at a time, and you see exactly where it will appear while you record.

When you stop, watch it back. Press Re-record to try again, or Use this video to keep it.

4. How the video is put together

A finished personal video consultation: the dentist on camera with a teeth map card for upper and lower crowding
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Your recordingYour video with subtitles added, and the cards you clicked appearing in the corner when you clicked them.
Clear aligners explainer video after the dentist's personal video, showing aligners 1 to 3
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Explainer videoThe explainer for each treatment, in the order you chose them.

Takes: a couple of minutes to process after you send.

Text message

For simple enquiries that don't need a full consultation. Write your reply and it's sent by text and email exactly as written. There's no video and no patient portal. The patient shows as Replied.

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