Heraeus Kulzer has launched the Venus Smile Store, allowing dental practices to sell the company's Venus whitening and oral care products to patients online.
The program gives practices a personalized Web store to which they can refer patients, generating profits for the practice while improving patient access to professional whitening and oral care products, according to the company.
Heraeus manages the website for the practice, which receives a portion of the profit from product sales generated through the practice's website. Heraeus also processes patient credit card payments, fills online orders, and ships directly to patients. The process relieves the practice of inventory management and sales tax administration.
Heraeus provides the following services to support each practice's Venus Smile Store:
- Personalized Web store on the VenusSmileStore.com site with a Web address that is unique to the practice
- Access to literature and email campaigns to help the practice drive patient traffic to its Web store
- Personalized handouts with the practice's Venus Smile Store Web address for patients to reorder
- Newsletters emailed to the practice with marketing tips and product offers
- Access to educational opportunities
Products available to patients through the online Venus Smile Store include Venus White Ultra prefilled whitening trays, Venus White teeth-whitening touch-up brush, Venus White whitening toothpaste, Venus Smile lip balm, and Venus Smile oral care probiotic mints. Dental practices can purchase these products from their Heraeus dealer.