The branded clinic app for aftercare, retention & referrals
Retain Dental gives your clinic its own branded app, where every patient follows their aftercare, earns points, and brings their friends. Every visit becomes a retention and referral engine, automatically.
No credit card | Your logo, your colors | HIPAA-aligned | Live in 20 minutes
The retention loop, running now
Referred patients
2.3×
Trusted by growing practices across the US
The gap nobody owns
The most valuable moment in dentistry is the week after treatment, when a patient is most grateful and most likely to tell a friend. It's also the week most practices leave to chance.
Up to 40%
of new dental patients never return after their first visit, not because of the dentistry, but because nobody followed up.
$146K
of revenue a typical practice quietly loses every year to churn, missed recalls, and forgotten aftercare.
1 in 3
patients say they would refer a friend, but almost nobody ever asks, and there is no easy way to reward it.
Industry benchmarks and patient surveys for US dental practices.
The moment that matters
The patient is relieved and grateful, and they will follow whatever you hand them next. Hand them a printed sheet and it goes in the bin. Hand them a plan in your own app and they open it every day, earn points for sticking to it, and tell their friends where they got it.
88%
average aftercare adherence when the plan lives in the patient app
2.3x
more likely a referred patient stays with the practice long term
4x
more reviews when the ask happens at the moment of aftercare
The retention loop
Most patient apps get downloaded once and forgotten. Retain Dental gives patients a reason to open it every day, their aftercare, and turns that daily habit into retention, reviews, and referrals.
Start free trial Daily adherence
88%
One visit. Five compounding outcomes.
A patient walks in. You do what you do best.
Their plan lands in your branded app and they follow it, daily.
Every check-in earns points they keep, and can spend.
They come back for the next visit, and bring family.
A friend needs a dentist. They share your name, and their points.
See it in motion
From the front desk to the patient's home screen, and back again as a referral.
The platform
Everything a patient touches between visits lives in your own app, and everything your team needs to grow lives in one dashboard.
Aftercare
Assign a protocol from the dashboard and it lands in your branded app as a daily checklist: aligners, post-op, whitening. Patients feel looked after, adherence is tracked, and your team stops chasing.
Your app
Your logo, your colors, your name. Patients open your app, not a generic portal, for aftercare, booking, balances, and rewards. No App Store wait; add to home screen in one tap.
Retention
Every treatment and every check-in earns points. Tiers get perks, and household pooling turns one patient into a family, so the next visit is already booked in their mind.
Referrals
When a friend needs a dentist, your patient shares your name, and their points. Referral rewards turn gratitude into new patients, automatically.
Recall
Overdue patients get the right nudge at the right time, automatically. Bring back the patients you already paid to acquire.
Insight
Retention rate, adherence, referrals, and lifetime value in one dashboard, so you can double down on the things that actually grow the practice.
Practice story
Northside Dental was losing roughly one in five new patients after the first visit. They put aftercare in their own app, rewarded check-ins, and let referrals happen on their own.
Within two quarters the practice was retaining far more of the patients it already had, and new patients started arriving through people they had treated.
+38%
active patients retained
2.4x
referrals per patient
4.9
average Google rating
"We used to treat aftercare as paperwork. Now it is the reason patients come back and the reason they send us their family."
How it works
No dev team. No migration. No meetings. Just your practice, finally running retention and referrals on one platform.
Add your logo, colors, and name. Your app looks like you built it, because to your patients, you did.
Import your patient list or connect your PMS. No migration project, no downtime, no IT team required.
Send your first aftercare plan and recall, and watch patients follow through, then come back and refer.
14 days free | No credit card | Cancel anytime
Product tour
The clinic workspace, the patient app, and the retention engine, real screens from the platform.
Pilot practices
“We assign aftercare the moment treatment ends, and patients actually follow it, then they tell us so. For the first time, our follow-up feels like part of the care instead of admin.”
“Patients open our app every day for their aftercare. Then they come back, and they bring their family. Retention stopped being a campaign and became a daily habit.”
“The referral piece surprised me. A patient shares their points with a friend, the friend books, and everyone wins. It is word of mouth, finally on rails.”
The difference
Security & compliance
Dental data deserves healthcare-grade handling. We build to that standard from day one.
We sign a Business Associate Agreement (BAA) with every practice and handle PHI with encryption in transit and at rest.
We are actively working toward SOC 2 Type II. We will share our current security documentation during your demo.
Role-based access controls, audit logging, and the ability to export your data at any time. No lock-in.
Questions
When treatment ends, you assign an aftercare plan from your dashboard, aligners, post-op, whitening, and more. It lands in your branded patient app as a simple daily checklist. Patients follow it, check off each step, and earn points for consistency, while your team sees adherence in real time instead of chasing it.
Yes. Retain Dental is white-label: your clinic’s name, logo, and colors on the app your patients use. It works as a progressive web app (PWA), so patients add it to their home screen in one tap, no App Store approval, no download friction, and it updates instantly.
Patients earn points for treatments and aftercare check-ins. When a friend or family member needs a dentist, the patient shares your clinic and can pass along their points, so the friend books, and everyone is rewarded. Referral bonuses turn your existing patients into your most reliable growth channel.
Your PMS runs the clinical and billing side of the practice. Retain Dental sits alongside it and owns the patient relationship between visits, the aftercare, recalls, rewards, and referrals that keep patients engaged and coming back. It works with your existing systems rather than replacing them.
Retain Dental is HIPAA-aligned: we sign a Business Associate Agreement (BAA) with every practice and protect PHI with encryption in transit and at rest, role-based access, and audit logging. SOC 2 Type II is in progress, and we can share our current security documentation during your demo.
Most practices are live in about 20 minutes. Add your branding, import your patient list or connect your PMS, and send your first aftercare plan and recall the same day. There is no migration project and no downtime.
Yes. Multi-location groups and DSOs get a network view across every practice, with location-level retention, cross-practice reporting, and centralized branding, while each location keeps its own patient experience.
Simple per-location pricing based on the number of active patients you have, not a guess from a sales rep. There are no setup fees and no per-feature upcharges. Book a demo and we will show you exactly what it looks like for your practice.
Start free, and watch aftercare turn into retention, reviews, and referrals, in weeks, not quarters.
14 days free | No credit card | HIPAA-aligned | Cancel anytime
