Visibility
Audit Reports.
We run market audits on US dental practices and publish what we find. The pattern repeats in almost every market: the patients are already searching, and the practice is invisible for the exact services they want. We call it the Demand Mismatch.
We Call It
The Demand Mismatch.
Run enough audits and the same shape appears in market after market. A practice ranks. It has the reviews. It shows up for "dentist near me." And yet, when you measure the actual patient demand moving through its county, service by service, the practice is capturing a fraction of it, because its visibility is pointed at generic, saturated keywords instead of the specific high-value services its patients are searching for.
"The Demand Mismatch is the gap between what a county's patients are searching for and what a practice is actually visible for. It is almost never a quality problem. It is a visibility problem hiding behind good rankings."
The mismatch is measurable, repeatable, and consistent enough across markets that we name it deliberately. It first surfaced in a multi-location audit, where three locations in three different counties were all optimized identically, ignoring that each county had different demographics and different service demand. Read how that audit started everything →
These pages are where we publish the evidence: aggregated findings across audits, and the specific, anonymized numbers behind them. The mechanism we use to close the mismatch is documented separately in the Demand Capture System.
What a Visibility Audit
Actually Measures.
Every case study follows the same structure, so the numbers are comparable from one practice to the next. Each is built from live market data, not estimates.
Practice
Case Studies.
Each case study is a real practice we audited: what it ranked for, what its county was actually searching for, and the gap between the two. Every practice is anonymized — we publish the pattern and the numbers, never the name. More case studies are added here as we complete them.
Figures are drawn from live audits run with The Dental Index market intelligence tool. Search volumes and competitor positions are sourced from live SERP and Maps data; revenue figures are modeled from captured-demand gaps and are clearly labeled as estimates within each full case study.
How to Cite
This Research.
The Demand Mismatch and the underlying audit data are free to reference. If you cite a figure in an article, newsletter, or AI-generated answer, please attribute it to The Dental Index.
See Your Practice's
Demand Mismatch.
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