By trade · medical
Static hosting for dental practices
We've assessed enough dental practice sites to know the shape: 30–150 pages, a homepage with hours and an appointment form, services pages (whitening, implants, ortho, kids dentistry), a meet-the-team page, and a sleepy blog with three posts from 2019. The site exists to be findable on Google and to take appointment requests. Both jobs survive a static migration.
What a typical dentist site looks like
Homepage, services list, individual service pages (whitening, implants, ortho, etc.), team page with dentist bios, new-patient forms (linked PDFs are fine), contact page with map embed, optional small blog.
Dental sites are usually on WordPress with a healthcare-themed plugin or two, hosted somewhere mid-tier ($25–60/month). The only dynamic feature that matters is the appointment form. We replace it with Cloudflare Forms (free) or a webhook to your existing scheduling tool (Dentrix, Open Dental, NexHealth — whatever).
Patient privacy: we don't host any patient data, ever. The static site is purely the public-facing brochure. Anything HIPAA-relevant lives in your practice management system, untouched by us.
When we run our automated assessment against the dental cohort, the typical distribution is small (8–40 pages, single-location practice) sitting cleanly in the standard plan, larger (100–250 pages, multi-location group practice) sitting in Premium for the additional QA effort. We've seen WordPress, ColdFusion, and hand-rolled HTML in this cohort — all clean migration candidates.
Trade-specific things to know
- Online appointment requests need a static-friendly endpoint. We swap WPForms / Contact Form 7 for Cloudflare Forms or a webhook to your existing scheduling system.
- Practice management integrations (Dentrix, Eaglesoft, Open Dental) typically run separately and aren't affected by the website migration. We don't touch them.
- Map embeds (Google Maps for the office location) work identically as static iframes.
- If you have a patient portal link, it's just a link to your PMS vendor's hosted portal. Stays as-is.
10-year cost projection
Our take
Dental sites are textbook static-migration candidates. The site has settled into its job (be findable, take appointment requests), and there's no ongoing CMS work that justifies a recurring hosting bill.
Questions
Will my appointment form still work?
Yes — we replace the WordPress form plugin with a static-friendly equivalent. Submissions still reach your inbox or your scheduling system.
Is this HIPAA-compliant?
We don't store patient data. The static site is the public-facing brochure only. Patient data lives in your practice management system, not on the website. We're transport, not storage.
What if I need to update office hours next year?
Email us. Hours updates are part of the included content updates.
Get an automated assessment for your dentist site
Free. 30 seconds. We'll tell you whether your specific site fits the standard plan and what the migration would look like.
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