DentalPolyglot vs hiring a marketing agency
You can commission an agency to build an international-patient website as a bespoke project. Or you can run one as software that mirrors the site you already have. This page compares the two on how they work, not on any single quote.
At a glance
A bespoke project scoped to your brief: strategy, design, build and copy, delivered as a one-off engagement.
The international-patient site an agency would build, but as software. It mirrors your existing site to a subdomain, translates it into the languages you choose, and runs the inbound funnel behind it: an auto-categorised lead inbox, multilingual treatment-plan PDFs, a patient-booking calendar and automatic reminders.
A custom quote per project, usually plus a retainer for ongoing changes. What you pay depends on scope and negotiation.
Fixed and published. Start is €499 setup plus €79 per month. Expand is €1,499 setup plus €199 per month. Concierge runs €4,999 setup plus €499 per month. Pay annually and it is about 17 percent off.
Weeks to months, across discovery, design rounds, build and revisions.
Live within a day. You send us your site and the languages you want, and the subdomain goes up.
Often rebuilt or migrated, so the agency ends up holding the site your patients already find.
Never touched. Your site stays where it is, and the translated version lives on a separate subdomain (clinic.dentalpolyglot.com). No script added, no redirect.
You depend on the agency for changes, and access to files and accounts is set by the contract.
You keep control. Translations export as JSON whenever you ask, and you own what you leave with.
Varies by the agency and whoever they subcontract.
Each language is written as its own idiom, not string by string. Expand adds a human review pass. Concierge adds a professional native translator per language.
Governed by the contract, and untangling a rebuilt site can be its own project.
A 30-day continuity window, JSON export and no noncompete. Because your original site was never touched, there is nothing to untangle.
When an agency is the right call
An agency is the better fit when the work is genuinely bespoke. If you want a full rebrand, a custom site built from scratch, or campaign work that goes well past an international-patient funnel, that is an agency engagement, and we would tell you so.
It also fits when you have the budget for a project that size and someone in-house to brief the agency and manage the rounds. A marketer on staff makes the relationship work. Without one, the back-and-forth tends to stall.
When DentalPolyglot fits
DentalPolyglot suits the small clinic that already treats some international patients and wants more, without hiring an agency or standing up a marketing department to get there.
You want the outcome: a full multilingual site and a working inbound inbox. What you do not want is a months-long engagement to reach it, or your existing website touched along the way. You want a fixed price you can read on the pricing page, and you want to keep what you built. DentalPolyglot was built by a polyglot who speaks six languages and has crossed a border for dental treatment, so the funnel is shaped around what a patient inquiring in another language actually needs.
We are still signing our first clinics, so we have no lead-lift number to show you, and we are not going to invent one.
Start when you are ready
See it running on your own site. Get started and the subdomain goes live within a day. Want to walk through the fit first? The same page reaches us, and a real person answers.