Orthodontic Practice Marketing

Usually because it is the least well verified, not because the enforcement was random. Shared premises and part-time hours are the common factors.

Partially. The brand's own locator will hold much of the result, but the surrounding organic and local results are contestable.

Ownership can generally be recovered through Google's ownership request process. It is worth resolving whether or not you are currently suspended.

One verified profile per staffed location with its own address, phone and hours, and one page on the site per location that says something specific about it. Locations sharing a phone number or a single generic page is what creates duplicate flags.

They can, because the trading name, the legal entity and the clinician of record often differ across locations. Google reviews that inconsistency, which is why group practices see category and duplicate suspensions disproportionately.

Yes. They attract different patients with different questions, and a single treatment page trying to serve both tends to rank for neither.

At the same address, usually not. Practitioner listings are for individual clinicians with their own practice, and duplicating a practice under each associate's name creates entity problems.

Only where it genuinely draws patients from them and the page says something real about that town. Pages that swap a place name into identical copy are visible as such.

Suspension hides that profile; it does not by itself delete the reviews attached to it. The risk is reinstatement producing a new listing rather than restoring the original.