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Dental GBP Photos: Erase Last Spring’s Price, Keep the Consent
Clean dental clinic promo photos with AI text removal: erase outdated offers and stamps, keep smiles and clinic branding clear, and export HD ads for social an…
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The front desk still gets the $99 call
Google Business Profile and the waiting-room loop still show last spring’s whitening price across a patient’s smile. The offer ended. The photo did not. Reshooting between hygiene blocks is rarely on the calendar. The job is to keep the still the patient signed for marketing, erase the burned-in dollars and expiry, and export crops for GBP and ads. You are removing a sticker. You are not whitening enamel in software, and you are not inventing a clinical result. Front-desk staff should be able to say the photo was updated the same week the offer changed. That only works if GBP, ads, and the TV share the same cleaned master.
Paint the offer, not the teeth
Upload the promo JPEG to text removal. Brush “NEW PATIENT $89,” “OFFER ENDS JUNE,” and a retired phone number as one block. Zoom to 100% on enamel, lips, and the operatory wall. You want the original grain, not a plastic patch. Do not brush restorations or faces. A stock badge in the corner is a watermark after the letters are gone — one routing sentence, then back to type. If the type covers most of the smile, stop. Reconstruction cannot invent the teeth you needed for consent photos. Mixing a logo and a price in the same stroke is why a canine still shows a yellow smear.
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Crops, boards, and HIPAA
Uploads accept JPG, PNG, WebP, or AVIF up to 10MB and 6000×6000 px. A 2400 px JPEG under 4MB typically returns in under 60 seconds. Export a high-resolution square for Google Business and a 1.91:1 for ads. Only edit stills with a current marketing release. Do not scrape another office’s Invisalign ad. If your state board dislikes “best dentist” or “pain-free guaranteed,” do not paint those lines back on. Add compliant copy on a separate layer in your layout tool so next quarter you change type without another reconstruction. Keep `promo-smile-base.jpg` without type and a dated folder of what went live.
Waiting-room screens
The same untitled still can loop in the reception TV if you letter today’s offer in the player, not in the pixels. Skip motion-blurred frames. Skip files the patient never signed. Skip beauty filters that change tooth color — that is a clinical claim. A second auto pass will not invent enamel the first pass flattened. Relight and reshoot when the type sat on the incisors. Name files by campaign month so the desk can find what is live versus what is archive.
When March is still stamped on the best smile
Clear the line, leave the clinical truth, and publish an offer that matches the clipboard at check-in. Do not invent a before-and-after that the patient did not sit for. Do not lift a stock smile and call it last Tuesday’s hygiene. When the special is over and the smile is still licensed, erase the dollars and ship the still that matches today’s menu.
GBP is a label, not a new smile
Google Business photo categories (logo, cover, additional) are labels in the product, not a license to invent clinical results. Put the cleaned still in additional photos. Do not replace a true operatory photo with a reconstructed celebrity smile. State boards already police advertising; a reconstructed tooth is still advertising. If the type sat on the incisors, relight and reshoot. Credits spent inventing enamel will not survive a complaint. Keep the marketing release in the same dated folder as the live JPEG so the desk can prove consent when someone asks.
Waiting-room loop versus ads
The reception TV can letter today’s offer in the player. Meta ads will compress a 2400 px JPEG; inspect the smile after export at half size. If the reconstructed area turns to blocks, relink the original or reshoot. Do not scrape another office’s Invisalign still. Do not paint “pain-free guaranteed” back on after cleanup. Add compliant copy on a separate layer. When GBP still advertises a price the clipboard no longer has, clear the overlay on the consented still and leave the teeth alone.
Front desk script after the swap
When someone calls the old price, the desk should open GBP on a phone and see today’s number, not March. That only happens if ads, the TV, and the profile share the untitled smile plus new type. Do not keep a “maybe we will run it again” JPEG with the old dollars still burned in. Archive it in a dated folder. Skip motion-blurred frames from a walk-through reel; those are not stills. Only edit photos with a current marketing release. Clearing your own expired offer is production. Lifting a stock smile and calling it last Tuesday’s hygiene is not.
When GBP still advertises a price the clipboard no longer has, clear the overlay on the consented still and leave the teeth alone.