Yes — when they’re run for orthodontics specifically. Most people aren’t searching for an orthodontist on Facebook, so paid social works differently from Google: it introduces your practice to local parents and adults, builds trust over a few touches — reinforced by the Google reviews, Healthgrades, and Zocdoc presence patients check next — and captures the ones ready to book a free smile assessment. With the right audiences, strong before-and-after creative, and tasteful retargeting, Facebook and Instagram become a steady source of new patient inquiries — not just likes.

Two numbers matter: your ad budget (paid to Meta) and our management fee. The numbers to watch are cost per lead (CPL) and the truer one, cost per booked patient (CPA) — plus CPM and CTR as efficiency signals. Both vary by city, audience, and creative. A common starting point is a monthly budget you’re comfortable testing with, run lean enough to read the data. We start with a free Meta ads plan and a clear, fixed monthly proposal — no long lock-ins, no surprises.

This is the part most agencies skip. A raw default Meta Pixel on an orthodontic booking flow can send protected health information into Meta — a real risk. We configure a no-PHI Pixel and a server-side Conversions API with hashed events, strip identifiers and diagnoses from URLs and audience names, and upload customer lists hashed. You measure booked consults compliantly — the mechanism, not just a “HIPAA-compliant” badge.

Health and medical advertising falls under Meta’s Special Ad Category, which intentionally limits how you can target — narrower age and gender options, a wider minimum location radius, and restrictions on detailed and lookalike targeting. Run orthodontic ads like e-commerce and you get restricted or waste budget. We declare the category correctly and build the audience strategy within those limits, so your campaigns run clean instead of getting throttled.

Meta restricts copy that implies it knows a personal attribute — “Embarrassed by your crooked teeth?” or “Hiding your smile?” reads as asserting the viewer’s condition, and gets disapproved. Before/after photos also draw extra scrutiny. We write policy-safe creative from draft one: speaking to the practice and the treatment offered rather than labeling the viewer, with no exploitative or overpromising claims. Fewer disapprovals means more uptime and less budget stuck in review.

They’re complementary, not either/or. Google captures people already searching for an orthodontist or Invisalign — high intent, ready to book. Meta reaches people before they search, builds awareness, and retargets warm prospects on Facebook and Instagram — lower intent, but far larger reach and lower cost per impression. Most growing practices run Google for capture and Meta for demand generation and retargeting. We run both and can advise where your budget works hardest.

Meta ads are fast to launch: once creative clears review, ads can start delivering and generate inquiries within the first days. The first few weeks are a learning period — we feed the Pixel clean conversion data, test creative, and let delivery settle — so cost per lead typically improves over the first one to three months. Lead volume depends on your market, budget, and offer, so we won’t promise a fixed number; we’ll set an honest, ranged expectation up front.

Yes, you own everything. Campaigns run inside your own Meta Business Manager — the Pixel, audiences, and creative stay your property, so if we ever part ways you keep the asset you paid to build. And we respect territorial exclusivity: we won’t run competing orthodontic practices against you in the same market.

Yes. Because Meta serves Facebook and Instagram from one ad-buying surface, your campaigns can run across the Instagram feed, Reels, and Stories alongside Facebook — we choose placements by where your audience actually engages and where booked-consult cost is lowest. Reels-native video in particular is a strong, scroll-stopping format for reaching teens, parents, and younger adults considering Invisalign.

Yes — Stethon Digital Marketing is an orthodontic meta ads agency and Facebook ads agency that specializes in healthcare — not a generalist agency learning your niche on your dime. As dedicated paid-social managers for orthodontic and Invisalign practices, we run the Facebook ads, Instagram ads, Lead Ads, and retargeting that fill your calendar. Every orthodontic meta ads campaign is built around how orthodontic patients scroll and how Meta’s health Special Ad Category works. Whether you’re a solo orthodontist, Invisalign provider, pediatric orthodontist, or multi-location group, you get a specialist healthcare team that already understands the HIPAA-safe Meta Pixel, the Conversions API, and the patient journey.