Comparison

UpElevate vs Kickstart Dental Marketing

Kickstart Dental Marketing pairs patient acquisition with front-desk call coaching and sells it as a 90-day sprint with no year-long retainer. That is a genuinely different commercial model from ours, and this page lays out where the two fit.

Who they are

What Kickstart Dental Marketing is known for.

Kickstart Dental Marketing work with growing practices, which they describe as $1M+ dental practices, across two services: patient acquisition and lead conversion. Their published offering includes Google Ads and Local Services Ads, local SEO and Maps optimisation, Meta campaigns, dormant patient reactivation, an AI voice bot for after-hours calls, weekly front-desk call coaching, call tracking with practice-management-system attribution, review generation, and two products, GrinPilot (an AI smile simulator) and DentalVoice (content from interviews). They sell a 90-Day Growth Sprint with a clear exit point and no year-long retainers, publish results such as 220 qualified new-patient leads in 90 days and a 12:1 return on ad spend, and are based in Greenwood Village, Colorado.

Side by side

Capability by capability.

CapabilityUpElevate DentalKickstart Dental Marketing
Full-arch specialisationFull-arch All-on-X only.General practice growth. Implants appear as one use of their smile-simulator tool, not as a stated focus.
Paid media (Google and Meta)Yes, managed to cost per booked qualified consult.Yes, Google Ads, Local Services Ads and Meta campaigns are listed.
SEO and organic contentYes, targeted at full-arch treatment intent.Local SEO and Maps optimisation are listed.
Websites and funnelsYes, including dedicated All-on-X landing experiences.Not stated as a service on their site.
Phone handling and lead responseYes, human qualification for candidacy, finance and intent before a consult is booked.Yes, weekly front-desk call coaching, a lead-response SLA and an AI voice bot for after-hours.
Case-acceptance and consult trainingYes, consult structure and objection handling for the full-arch decision.Front-desk call conversion coaching is listed; consult-room training is not stated.
Attribution and reportingMonthly line from spend to consults to cases closed.Call tracking with practice-management-system attribution is listed.
Published money-back guaranteeYes. Miss the floor of 2 additional qualified consults in a qualifying month and we refund that month's fee.Not stated on their site.
Market exclusivityYes. We will not run for a direct competitor in your radius.Not stated on their site.
Contract termsAgreed in writing before we start, including the guarantee terms.A 90-Day Growth Sprint with a clear exit point and no year-long retainers.

Every claim about Kickstart Dental Marketing above is taken from their own public website and was last checked on September 19, 2026. Where something is not published we say so rather than guess. Source. If anything here is out of date, tell us and we will correct it.

The honest answer

Neither of us is right for everyone.

Choose Kickstart Dental Marketing if

A growing general or cosmetic practice that wants new-patient volume across several treatment types, values front-desk call coaching as part of the package, and prefers a short, defined engagement over a longer partnership.

Choose UpElevate if

A practice whose economics are driven by All-on-X cases, that wants the whole engine built for that one decision, and that wants the outcome guaranteed in writing rather than scoped to a sprint.

Straight answers

The questions this raises.

Is a 90-day sprint enough for full-arch?+
It is enough to launch and to see the first qualified consults, which for most practices arrive inside 30 days. It is usually not enough to see cases close, because the full-arch decision runs 60 to 90 days from first enquiry and the follow-up pipeline is where much of the revenue sits. A short engagement suits treatments with a same-week decision better than it suits a $20,000 to $45,000 one.
Which is better for a growing general practice?+
Kickstart, most likely. Their acquisition and call-coaching package is built for whole-practice new-patient growth, and the sprint model keeps the commitment short. If full-arch is a small share of your production, that is the more sensible fit.
How were these claims verified?+
Every statement about Kickstart Dental Marketing above comes from their public website on the date shown, and anything they do not publish is marked "not stated" rather than assumed. If a detail has changed or we have it wrong, tell us and we will update the page.
What we actually do

The full-arch engine, piece by piece.

Dental Implant Marketing

The complete full-arch acquisition engine. Paid media, qualification, nurture and reporting, aimed at one number: additional All-on-X cases per month.

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SEO & Organic Content

Dental SEO services that target full-arch treatment intent, not vanity keywords. Technical fixes, treatment pages, and content that earns consults.

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Paid Media & PPC

Google and Meta campaigns for full-arch practices, managed against cost per booked consult. Search intent, creative and landing experience built together.

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