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Smile simulator FAQ

Questions dentists ask about the smile simulator

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About the simulator

What is Your Social Smile?

Your Social Smile (YSS) is an AI smile simulator for dental practices and DSOs. Patients see whitening, veneers, braces, implants or lip treatments on their own smile, on your website, a waiting-room tablet or a link you text them. The booking request reaches your front desk with the before and after attached, traced to the campaign that brought the patient in.

Do I need any special equipment to use the smile generator?

No. Patients use the camera on their own phone, tablet or computer, in the browser, with nothing to install. On your side, adding it to your website is one snippet, and nothing has to connect to your practice management system.

What platforms can YSS be implemented on?

Any website platform: the simulator is added with one snippet on the pages where you want it. Patients then use it in the browser on a phone, tablet or desktop, from your website, a waiting-room tablet, a QR code in print or a link you text them.

What are some of the key tech features of YSS?

  • Live camera simulation for whitening, braces, lip fillers and lip reshaping, so patients see the change as they move
  • Photo-based simulation for veneers, straightening and missing teeth, usually ready in about a minute
  • Booking requests that arrive with the patient's before and after attached
  • Reporting by treatment, location and campaign, from the first try-on to the booked consult

How is this different from digital smile design?

Digital smile design tools plan the case in the chair or the lab, usually with scans and a technician. This comes before that: a quick photo-based preview, on your website or chairside, that gets the patient to book the consult.

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Results

How accurate is the smile generator?

Simulations are built to be clinically plausible rather than flattering: the result is drawn on the patient's own teeth, and whitening stops at real VITA shades (A2, B1 and BL2) instead of an artificial white. A simulation is a preview to start the conversation, and the clinician decides at the consult what is achievable for each patient.

Can AI-powered technology really transform smiles?

AI can’t change a smile, but it can show a patient what treatment would change, on their own face, before they book. Whitening, braces and lip treatments run live on the camera, so patients can try options and arrive at the consult knowing what they want.

How is YSS better than other digital smile generators?

Most smile design software is built for the treatment-planning appointment: it needs the patient in the chair, a trained operator and time per case. Your Social Smile is built for the step before that. Patients try a treatment on their own smile on your website, with no app and no staff time, and the request reaches your front desk with the result attached.

No training or integration is needed. Setup is one short form and one snippet, and every booking request is traced back to the campaign that produced it.

Is a simulation a treatment plan?

No. It is a marketing preview based on a photo, and it does not account for functional, biological or budgetary limits. The clinician decides what is actually possible.

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For your practice

How does YSS help in reducing chair time?

Patients arrive having already seen the treatment on their own smile, so less of the consult goes on explaining what it would look like and more on the plan. It doesn’t replace the clinical exam, and the clinician still decides what is possible.

How much does YSS cost?

Three test simulations are free, on your own patient photos, with no card required. After that it is $400 per location per month, billed monthly and cancellable any time, with no onboarding fee, no implementation charge and no annual contract.

Groups get volume pricing, so the price per location comes down as you add locations. Get in touch about one contract across your group.

Why should I sign up for Your Social Smile?

All smile treatments are included: whitening, braces, veneers, straightening, missing teeth, lip fillers and lip reshaping. You choose which ones patients see, in what order, under your own treatment names and prices, so what patients see matches the menu your clinicians actually offer.

Does it book the appointment?

Not by itself. The request lands in your Bookings queue with the before and after attached, and your front desk confirms the time. If you’d rather, the button can send patients to your own online booking page or phone line instead.

Are we locked into a term?

No. Month to month, cancel before the next renewal. We would rather you stay because it works than because you prepaid.

What happens to patient photos?

Patients opt in before a photo is collected, photos and results are deleted automatically after 30 days at most, and a photo is only used to improve our models if the patient separately agrees. The security page has the full detail.

Still have a question?

Send it to the team and someone will get back to you, or book a walkthrough of every treatment module.