Is AI recommending your plastic surgery practice?
When someone asks ChatGPT “Best rhinoplasty surgeon near me”, does your plastic surgery practice show up — or your competitors? Find out with a free Snapshot.
Measured across ChatGPT · Gemini · Perplexity — based on real customer prompts.
The problem
Why high-ticket consults now start inside AI answers
The shortlist forms long before the first consult
A rhinoplasty or breast augmentation decision usually comes after long, quiet research — and more and more of it happens inside ChatGPT and Gemini. If AI keeps naming other surgeons, you're off the shortlist before anyone sees your before-and-afters.
One missed recommendation can be one lost surgery
These are high-ticket procedures — losing a single patient is real revenue. When AI answers "best facelift surgeon near me" with a list of competitors, that's not a lost click. It can be a lost patient.
You can't see what AI tells your patients
AI conversations are private. No analytics tool shows you the moment ChatGPT pointed a mommy makeover patient to the practice across town. Until you measure it, you're guessing.
The measurement
What RecoSignal measures for plastic surgery practices
Real customer questions, asked to ChatGPT, Gemini and Perplexity. We report how often you are recommended — frequency, never a made-up rank.
Your recommendation rate across ChatGPT, Gemini and Perplexity: each engine answers 30+ patient-style questions — "best rhinoplasty surgeon," "who does natural-looking breast augmentation" — and we count how often those answers name your practice.
Which competing practices AI names instead of yours, and your RecoShare — your recommendations as a share of all the recommendations in those answers.
Which sources AI actually cited when it answered plastic surgery questions — your own pages included. In our Dallas plastic surgery benchmark, 837 of 1,153 citations (73%) pointed at practices' own websites; the largest outside platforms were RealSelf (79), the ASPS site (31) and Healthgrades (13). You get your market's list, not a vendor's guess about it.
We keep the receipts: every raw AI answer behind your score is stored, so the numbers can be re-checked against the actual responses — an audit, not a one-time guess.
Not the same as SEO
Ranking on Google doesn't mean AI recommends you
SEO earns you a spot on Google's results page. AI visibility is different: when a patient asks ChatGPT "who should I trust with my rhinoplasty in Houston," there is no results page of links to scan. The assistant writes one answer and names a few practices. Either you're in that answer or you're not.
The two channels run on different fuel, but not in the way the industry claims. Google ranks pages; an assistant rewrites text. In our Dallas plastic surgery benchmark, 73% of the citations behind AI's recommendations pointed at practices' own websites — RealSelf, the biggest outside platform, accounted for 79 citations against 837 to surgeons' own pages. A stunning website is not automatically a readable one: a gallery, a slider and a trust seal are images, and a model cannot read an image of your board certification. State the board, the year, the residency and the privileges in words and the engine has something to repeat. This is sometimes called generative engine optimization; the idea is simpler than the label.
For plastic surgery, the gap matters more than in most fields. Patients research surgeons long and carefully before booking a consult, and a growing share of that comparison is a private AI conversation. If you only track Google rankings, you only see part of the journey.
Want the full picture? Read our plain-English guide: AI visibility vs local SEO.
Plans
Start free. Pay when you see the gap. Stay ahead.
See where you stand for free, unlock the plan that fixes it, then keep your AI visibility growing.
Snapshot
See where you stand in AI answers.
- AI Visibility Score
- RecoShare vs your competitors
- Your single biggest gap
Action Plan
Know exactly what to fix, why, and how.
- Full prioritized plan — owner and done-when for each step
- Why each fix matters + how to do it
- Ready-to-use drafts when the measurement calls for them
- AI-Readiness Scorecard if your site is reachable (developer bonus)
Monitor
Stay visible — we keep watching.
- Monthly re-scan + RecoShare trend
- AI-bot crawl monitoring
- Alerts if you drop out or break
- Monthly report
Grow
Get recommended — done for you.
- Everything in Monitor
- AI Page — hosted & auto-updated
- Content prompts (reviews, publications)
- Competitor watch + living Action Plan
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FAQ
Questions, answered
Plastic surgery is private. Would patients really discuss it with an AI?
That privacy is the point. Many people would rather ask ChatGPT about a rhinoplasty revision or a mommy makeover than ask a friend or post on a forum. It's a quiet research channel you can't observe from the outside — which is exactly why it's worth measuring.
We're known for one signature procedure. Will the Snapshot reflect that?
Yes. The questions mirror how real patients ask, including procedure-specific ones — "best rhinoplasty surgeon in…" or "who does natural-looking breast augmentation…" — alongside general "best plastic surgeon" questions. You'll see where AI recommends you and where it doesn't.
AI already mentions our practice sometimes. Isn't that enough?
It depends on how often — and compared with whom. Being named once in a while isn't the same as being the practice AI reaches for when a facelift patient asks who to trust. The Snapshot puts your recommendation frequency next to your competitors', so "sometimes" becomes a number you can act on.
Our reputation lives in board certification and before-and-after galleries. Does AI even see that?
It sees the certification only if you write it down. A model cannot read a before-and-after gallery or a trust badge — those are images — but it reads a sentence that says you were certified by the American Board of Plastic Surgery in a named year, trained in a named residency, with privileges at a named hospital. That distinction is not academic: in our Dallas benchmark, 73% of the citations behind AI's plastic surgery recommendations pointed at practices' own websites. Your report shows which sources AI actually cited in the answers we collected, so you know exactly where the credential has to appear in text.