Dental practice year-end 'use your benefits' reminder clips: $1.92

A dental office can make three year-end reminder clips in English and Spanish for $1.92 on Sume: each clip is a photo of your front desk or office, a 400-character voiceover ($0.02), a render ($0.10) and burned captions ($0.20), so $0.32 per clip and six clips in total (read 2026-10-03).

The reminder is administrative: annual benefit maximums and flexible-spending balances often reset or expire at year end, so patients may want to book before December 31. Plans differ and change, so the clip should say "check your plan" and give your phone number, not state what a plan covers. Nothing here is clinical advice, and the clips should not make health claims.

Three clips, one template

Pick three topics: booking a cleaning before the year ends, how to check remaining benefits with their insurer, and your holiday hours. Write each as 400 characters or fewer, which is about 25 seconds spoken. Keep an identical structure so the second language is just a translation: one sentence on the reason, one on the action, one with the phone number.

Use your own office photo as the slide. It is imported once and reused for all six clips, so there is no image-generation cost at all. For each clip send the voiceover as the audio spine to Timeline with one video[] slot, the photo, held for the full duration. The caption job then burns the spoken words; for Spanish set language to es as the speech-to-text hint.

Review before you publish

Have a bilingual staff member read the Spanish script and the final captions. Dental and insurance terms translate unevenly, and a literal term can confuse a patient. Choose a voice that speaks Spanish and set language on the voice request too; a voice that does not speak the language will accent it.

Do not show patient faces, charts or names in any clip without written consent, and do not use before-and-after claims. If your regulator or professional body requires disclosure of generated voices, add it to the caption script. A change of phone number after the render means a new voiceover, render and caption for $0.32, which is why the number belongs in a script that is final before the first run.

Budget and checks before you start

Decide who approves the scripts. A front-desk lead should confirm hours, phone number and booking steps, and the practice owner should confirm that no sentence promises coverage or outcomes. Keep the approved script and the generated file together, so you can show what was published on which date.

If you add more topics, each costs $0.32 per language. Six topics in two languages is $3.84 (read 2026-10-03). Publish at most one reminder a week through December, since a flood of reminders makes patients tune out, and offer a phone number as well as a booking link for patients who prefer to call.