01Patient language library 02Review audit kit
For dental marketers

What dental patients say, read and scored.

The words patients use for each treatment, and an eight-check audit you can run on any practice you pitch.

Get the kit £49 · one-off purchase
Readout · one- and two-star share3 of 12 topics
Price and cost46.4%
NHS32.3%
Waiting32.1%
Emergency and pain
Front desk
Children
Hygiene
Aligners
Nervous patients

Nine more topics, from emergencies to nervous patients, are in the kit.

See all 12 topics
36,078 written reviews1 Jan – 13 Oct 2026
43,117reviews
898practices
510benchmark practices

One finding from the kitPrice against nervous patients

46%

of reviews that mention price are one or two stars. For nervous patients it is under 2%.

Why it matters

Patients forgive a lot. Where they don't is money, access and waiting, and that is what the next patient reads before booking. The kit shows you where each practice sits.

How you will use itAny practice, any town

Built for the way dental marketers work, the week you need it.

Treatment pages and ads

Write in the words patients already use when they are happy, and answer the worries they raise when they are not.

Pitches

Score a prospect's reviews and show where it sits against 510 UK practices, in patients' own words.

Client reviews

Rescore a client each quarter on the same eight checks and show what moved.

What's insideFour parts

Evidence you can quote in a pitch, and a method you can run on any practice.

12topics

The topic map

How often patients raise each topic, and how often it ends in one or two stars.

7treatments

The language library

Figures, the words patients use, and quotes from five-star and one-star reviews for each treatment.

510practices

Top against bottom

What the best-rated quarter is praised for, and what the lowest-rated quarter is held to account for.

8checks

The audit kit

Benchmarks, a scorecard with thresholds and a four-step audit you can run in about twenty minutes.

A page from the libraryEntry 07 of 07

The complaint is rarely the price. It is the gap between what patients were told and what they paid.

One entry shown in full. The other six follow the same format in the kit.

07

Price and cost

938reviews
427practices
3.05average stars
46.4%one or two stars

Words in one- and two-star reviews

told 182paid 120

When it goes right

"Expensive but worth every penny, they do great work and take very good care of you"Five stars · May 2026

When it goes wrong

"Quoted price over the phone, then after the work was done was presented with a bill for 3 times the original quote."One star · Jun 2026

In the kit

Also in the libraryNervous patientsImplantsAligners and orthodonticsWhitening and cosmeticEmergency and painChildren and families

The audit kitEight checks

Score any practice in twenty minutes.

Each check has thresholds taken from 510 UK practices with at least 20 reviews this year, so a practice sees exactly where it sits.

0%

of one- and two-star reviews get a reply at the typical UK practice. The kit shows what the top quarter does instead.

Check0 points1 point2 points
01Average stars this yearunder 4.684.68 to 4.944.95 or more
02Reviews posted this year
03Reviews with a reply
04One- and two-star reviews with a reply
05Reviews at one or two stars
06Words in a typical written review
07Reviews that mention the front desk
08Reviews that name a member of staff

Thresholds for checks 02 to 08, the scoring bands and the four-step audit are in the kit.

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Before you buyWhat the evidence is, and is not

Source

Public Google reviews of UK dental practices: 43,117 reviews of 898 practices, posted 1 January to 13 October 2026. Quotes are copied as written with names removed.

Coverage

Most reviews come from practices in Greater Manchester, Birmingham and several London boroughs. Treat the figures as a large UK sample, not a national census.

Method

Topics are matched by keyword in the review text. Benchmarks use the 510 practices with at least 20 reviews this year. Reviews are a self-selected sample of patients.

Get the full kit, for any practice you pitch.

All 12 topics7 treatment entries with quotesTop against bottom, 510 practices8-check audit with thresholds

Full report

UK Dental Patient Language Library and Review Audit Kit

£49

One-off payment · Instant access

Non-exclusive licence for your own internal use.