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Marketing & lead-gen/2026

Rooted Smiles Studio

Mobile dental hygiene practice

The entire front door for a mobile dental-hygiene practice — designed to make a new service feel legitimate and reachable.

Rooted Smiles Studio — The entire front door for a mobile dental-hygiene practice — designed to make a new service feel legitimate and reachable.

The challenge

Mobile dental hygiene — a licensed hygienist coming to your home — is a service most people don’t know exists. The entire practice had no app and no portal; this one page had to make a brand-new category feel legitimate, safe, and reachable.

A visitor who didn’t know mobile hygiene existed leaves convinced it’s real and reachable — and taps Book or Call.
The north star

The approach

  1. 01

    Built the whole experience around one north star — “The House Call” — so it feels like a trusted local provider, not a franchise or clinic.

  2. 02

    Wrote and structured copy to establish legitimacy fast: real credentials, real coverage area, and a clear picture of who it’s for.

  3. 03

    Designed mobile-first for the true first-touch moment — someone searching “can someone clean my mom’s teeth at home?” on a phone.

  4. 04

    Reduced the entire funnel to a single decision: tap Book or tap Call, positioned against insurance portals and DSO sites.

Design iteration

Four brand directions, including a client-driven pivot

The exploration produced four distinct brand directions with client-facing comparison screenshots. “The House Call” — green botanical, paper-white body with a canopy-green drenched hero, Spectral and Hanken Grotesk — became the shipped site. Alongside it we built “Grounded Apothecary” (a tactile deep-clay, Aesop-leaning concept) and “Quiet Clinical-Warm” (a bright, maximally legible high-trust direction), implemented as switchable routes for easy side-by-side review. A later client-driven pivot explored a sunset/burgundy brand board with two logo directions — a “Sunset Tooth” and a “Rooted” palm-and-roots pun — each with monochrome fallbacks.

What we built

Highlights of the work

Category-defining copy

Explains and legitimizes a service most visitors have never heard of.

Single-action funnel

Every path leads to one clear choice: Book or Call.

Mobile-first craft

Designed for the phone-in-hand discovery moment it’s actually used in.

Trust by design

Real credentials and a warm, human tone that reads as a house call, not a clinic.

Capabilities demonstrated

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