It was 8:30 at night, at my dinner table, long after that patient had walked out. One review, under a first name I did not recognize. I read it twice.
I could not tell you who the patient was, what we had done for them, or who had been in the room. Neither could my staff. Somebody had walked out of my own practice unhappy, and nobody knew, so nobody called.
I lost the whole night to it. What did we miss, what could I have done, who was working that day. I would have called that patient the same afternoon. I would have called that night. Nobody could tell me who to call.
I had that night more than once. I looked for something that would have told me in time, and I did not find it.
What if I had known that afternoon, while the patient was still on the way home and a phone call would still have meant something? That is what this is. The patient gets asked. The answer goes to the people responsible, by name, with a deadline. What they did about it stands there in their own words.
I am a dentist. Over twelve years I owned three dental locations. I bought, merged, built one from the ground up and sold twice, most recently in September 2024. I have also been through diligence as a seller twice, and you learn what your version of events is worth when somebody else gets to check it.
I am still licensed. I stepped away from the chair to build this, and the first customers come on board this fall.
Tell me what you expect to happen when a patient is unhappy, and I will show you what Loyalo does with it.
Joannis Sekoulidis, DDS MSc
Founder, Loyalo

