Plastic Surgery

Hoot for Plastic Surgery & Aesthetics

Your patients are confused and overwhelmed by cosmetic procedures.

They leave the consultation excited. Then they go home, open their phone, and drown in conflicting advice. Uncertainty grows slowly: consults disappear, booked patients stop showing up, and the ones who do arrive scared. The hardest part of every cosmetic procedure happens at home, and right now your practice isn’t there.

A woman at home in the evening, looking at her phone with an uncertain expression
The Central Problem

Patient panic is burdening your staff. And it starts long before surgery day.

A patient recovering from lipo panics over normal swelling. A breast aug patient is convinced routine discomfort is a complication. It’s 9:30 at night, the office is closed, and voicemail does nothing for an anxious patient. And the same silence works upstream too: it’s quietly emptying your consult calendar.

153%
increase in patient-authored portal messages from 2020 to 2025

Patient portal messages grew far faster than office visits, adding a new layer of work for healthcare teams.

Source: Long et al., JAMA, 2026; 139M+ active patients across 47,000+ clinics.

Your team answers the same questions all day

Is this bruising normal? When can I shower? Can I sleep on my side? Every call is the same, every answer is the same, and every minute your coordinators spend reassuring one patient is a minute not spent booking the next one.

Show-up rates keep declining

One in three booked consultations is a no-show, and it’s not flakiness. It’s uncertainty. Between booking and appointment day, doubts grow until cancelling is easier. Empty slots and idle surgeon time leads to lost revenue.

TikTok got to your patient first

Patients arrive pre-educated by influencers and reels, with expectations and 3-day recovery myths. Your surgeons now spend precious consult time un-teaching the internet instead of building trust.

A couple at their kitchen table in the evening, discussing something on a phone
What We Learned

The decision, and the panic, both happen in the kitchen. Not the clinic.

We’ve studied thousands of patient journeys across specialties. Cosmetic patients follow the same pattern, just with higher emotion and higher stakes.

1

Patients retain almost nothing from the consult

They’re excited, nervous, and processing a life-changing decision. The details about anesthesia, downtime, and pricing are forgotten by the time they reach the parking lot.

2

Uncertainty grows in silence, and silence kills show-ups

Every unanswered question at 9 PM gets answered by a forum, sent to a portal, or answered by a stranger’s horror story. By appointment day, cancelling is just easier. No-shows aren’t flaky patients; they’re unanswered ones.

3

Nothing calms a patient like their own surgeon’s voice

Not a brochure. Not a portal. Not a nurse line. The surgeon who examined them, speaking directly to them, is the highest-trust reassurance tool in medicine.

How Hoot Helps

Your voice appears in their text thread, at the exact moment.

No app. No login. No portal. No extra work for your staff.

A surgeon in scrubs recording a video on a phone tripod in a bright exam room A phone on a kitchen counter playing a video from the surgeon
Step 01

Record once

Your surgeons record short videos answering the questions patients actually ask: what recovery really looks like, what’s normal, what’s not, and what happens on surgery day. 

Step 02

Delivered at the right moment

Hoot delivers videos at the right time via text: the evening after the consult, three days before surgery, the morning after the procedure, day three of side effects.

Step 03

Patients show up calm and prepared

When their surgeon’s voice fills the gap between booking and appointment day, patients keep the consult, book with confidence, follow pre-op instructions, and stop flooding your phone lines with calls. Your staff gets their time back.

The Whole Picture

Two ways to run the journey

Start with one thread, then choose how it unfolds. A simple sequence, or a path that adapts to each patient’s real concern.

Option 1

Linear patient journey

COMMUNICATION FROM CONSULT TO RESULTS

Sequence your videos to be days or weeks apart, from the first consult through final results. Tap a title to play it on the phone; every patient receives the same ordered arc, right in their text thread.

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Dr. [NAME]
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Week 2
Getting ready for surgery
You’re booked. Here’s exactly how to get ready over the next two weeks.
Dr. [NAME]
▶ 1:24
Your pre-op checklist
what to stop, start, and bring
Watch nowthen a quick question
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Message
Option 2

Adaptive patient journey

the patient chooses their own path
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Deciding at home
Your journey, your questions
Hi [PATIENT], Dr. [NAME] here. I recorded this walkthrough of your procedure for you. After you watch, tap the question that’s on your mind.
Dr. [NAME]
▶ 1:48
Your procedure
What happens from start to finish
Anesthesia & safety
Recovery & downtime
Cost & financing
Anesthesia & Safety
9:41
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Anesthesia & safety
Dr. [NAME]
▶ 1:30
What “safe” really means
Watch this video about safety.
Board certification, monitoring, and the questions you should ask any practice.
Recovery & Downtime
9:41
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Recovery & downtime
Dr. [NAME]
▶ 2:00
What recovery really looks like
Watch this video about recovery.
When you can drive, work, exercise, and what swelling is normal.
Cost & Financing
9:41
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Cost & financing
Dr. [NAME]
▶ 1:30
What’s included in your quote
Watch this video to learn about cost.
Monthly payment options, with a one-tap link to talk to your coordinator.
Get Started

See what your patients could be experiencing.

Hoot handles the video production, the campaign setup, and the staff training. You bring the patients. Let’s build your plastic surgery journey together.

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