{"id":"example_dental-no-shows","url":"https://usewant.com/examples/dental-no-shows","idea":"Smart reminders and simple rebooking for independent dental clinics that lose time and revenue to missed appointments.","status":"done","created_at":"2026-07-14","headline":"The pain is real. The dental buyer is not proven yet.","verdict":"The run found strong adjacent evidence for replacing phone confirmations with text and moderate evidence for scheduling friction. Only one finding was explicitly dental, so the specific buyer and willingness to pay remain unvalidated.","evidence":"mixed","posts_scanned":834,"findings_qualified":6,"communities":[{"name":"r/smallbusiness","posts":2},{"name":"r/Dentistry","posts":1}],"themes":[{"title":"Appointment reminders","sources":["https://www.reddit.com/r/smallbusiness/comments/1rsfh5w/we_stopped_calling_patients_to_confirm/"]},{"title":"Broken booking","sources":["https://www.reddit.com/r/Dentistry/comments/1uvot7w/i_got_fired_from_my_first_associate_job/oxdgq0v/"]},{"title":"Active tool search","sources":["https://www.reddit.com/r/smallbusiness/comments/1r1nfib/my_dermatology_practice_is_growing_but_i_cant/o54v4f8/"]}],"quotes":[{"text":"We were spending half our mornings leaving voicemails that nobody listened to.","author":null,"community":"r/smallbusiness","date":null,"url":"https://www.reddit.com/r/smallbusiness/comments/1rsfh5w/we_stopped_calling_patients_to_confirm/"},{"text":"It’s been slow for months... he knows the booking system is broken.","author":null,"community":"r/Dentistry","date":null,"url":"https://www.reddit.com/r/Dentistry/comments/1uvot7w/i_got_fired_from_my_first_associate_job/oxdgq0v/"},{"text":"Do you or anyone have recs on a scheduling app/plugin for patients to book on the website?","author":null,"community":"r/smallbusiness","date":null,"url":"https://www.reddit.com/r/smallbusiness/comments/1r1nfib/my_dermatology_practice_is_growing_but_i_cant/o54v4f8/"}]}