The calls a dental practice actually gets
A dental phone does not ring evenly. It spikes at opening, goes quiet while the front desk is chairside, and then fills with the calls nobody is there to take: the 9 p.m. toothache, the Saturday broken crown, the new patient who found you on a map and will call the next practice if nobody picks up. The AI answers all of them on the first ring, at any hour, without the front desk leaving a patient.
- New patient enquiries
- It takes the name, the reason for the visit, and the insurance situation, then offers real openings from your connected calendar and books the exam during the call. Google Calendar, Microsoft 365 or Outlook, and Cal.com sync both ways, so the slot is gone the moment it is taken and you do not double-book.
- After-hours pain calls
- It asks the screening questions you wrote, not clinical ones of its own. True emergencies go where your on-call rules say they go; the rest get an urgent slot the next working morning and a text confirming it. The AI does not diagnose and will say so.
- Reschedules and cancellations
- It moves or releases the appointment in the calendar during the call, which is the difference between a gap you can refill and a chair sitting empty because the voicemail was not checked until Monday.
- Insurance and price questions
- It answers from the brief you gave it about your plans, fees, and payment options. When a question falls outside what you briefed it on, it says it does not know and follows your rule: take a message or transfer to a human.
- Calls in another language
- It speaks 25+ languages and switches to the caller's without being asked, which matters for practices whose patient list does not all share one first language.
Why an unanswered dental call is expensive
A missed new-patient call is not a lost appointment, it is a lost patient relationship, and a dental patient is a recurring one: exams, hygiene visits, and whatever treatment follows over years. The caller who reaches voicemail at 9 p.m. rarely calls back in the morning, because by then they have already reached a practice that answered. Every call is transcribed, summarised, and sent to you afterwards, so you can see exactly which enquiries came in overnight and what was promised.
Connecting it to the practice line
You keep the number on your cards, your map listing and the sign outside. In the practice phone system you set a forward: either everything, or only the calls you would otherwise lose - after hours, at weekends, and when reception has not picked up in four or five rings because the nurse is chairside. Nothing is ported, nothing is disconnected, and the handsets at the front desk ring exactly as they do now; the AI only ever answers what the forward hands it. Most practices start with after-hours and unanswered-overflow, read a fortnight of transcripts, then widen it. If you would rather keep the streams apart, take a second number for the out-of-hours line and leave the main one untouched. Turning it off again is one setting in your phone system, not a migration.
What it writes into, and what it does not
Treat any AI receptionist that claims to write into your practice-management software with suspicion. Here is exactly what this one touches.
- Appointments go into Google Calendar, Microsoft 365 or Outlook, or Cal.com. You connect them with OAuth and they sync both ways, so a slot taken on the phone at 9 p.m. is already gone when the front desk opens the diary.
- It does not write into Dentrix, Eaglesoft, Open Dental or SOE Exact, and neither does any other AI receptionist without a bridge somebody has to build first. Saying otherwise just moves the double entry somewhere you will not notice it.
- The pattern that works is a dedicated bookings calendar reception clears each morning. Every call arrives as a summarised transcript by email, so the confirmed ones get moved into the chart software as part of the day-start routine, with the caller's own words in front of you.
- If a system on your side can accept an HTTPS webhook, every call summary and transcript can be posted to it with a signature, which is how practices feed new-patient details into their own intake tooling.
Patient calls, recorded and written down
Calls are transcribed and summarised, so what a patient says about a symptom or a medication becomes text. That text is encrypted in transit and at rest, hosted in the EU, never sold, and never used to train external models. Two decisions are worth making before you route a live patient line: how much clinical detail you actually want collected - most practices restrict it to the problem in the patient's own words plus how urgent it is - and who on the team can open transcripts. The AI does not diagnose, does not give clinical advice, and will say so and follow your escalation rule instead of improvising. If you are a covered entity in the US, treat that as a conversation to have with us before go-live rather than a checkbox. The full data terms are in our privacy policy.
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Create AI phone assistants
Select voice, language, and a welcome message.
Define in-call behavior and post-processing
Set up different call handling and choose how you want to receive the transcripts.
Let the AI take your phone calls
The AI will be linked to an AI Receptionist phone number or your own phone system.
What it actually does
Not a phone menu with a nicer voice. Here is what it can do on a real call - and what happens when it can't.
Gets people to the right person
Set up to five destinations - front desk, billing, the on-call engineer - each with its own hours. It picks the one that fits what the caller needs, and it knows who is actually reachable right now.
Escalates before you lose the caller
It offers a person the moment someone is upset, has had to repeat themselves, or says it's an emergency. It doesn't wait to be asked. Add your own triggers: a burst pipe, someone threatening to cancel.
Rings you when it matters
An urgent message texts you straight away, and if you want it to, the receptionist calls you and reads out who rang, their number and the problem. Set a callback window and it promises that out loud.
Reads from your own systems
Point it at your API and it can look up an order, check stock or quote your real pricing mid-call, instead of guessing or taking a message you have to answer later.
Doesn't make things up
Name the subjects it must never answer and it says so plainly instead of guessing. Give it wording that has to be exact and it uses yours. After every call it checks what it said against what you told it and flags anything it couldn't back up. And if a caller asks outright whether they're talking to an AI, it tells them.
Remembers who's called before
A returning caller is greeted by name and isn't asked again for what they already told you. One switch turns it off if you'd rather it didn't.
Use cases
Booked new-patient exams, after-hours emergency triage, and insurance questions - handled on every call, in 25+ languages, and synced to your calendar and CRM.
Reception & Routing
Takes incoming calls and forwards them to the appropriate contact person.
Call Transcription
Collects inquiries, transcribes them, and sends you a summary by email.
Customer Service
Handles customer inquiries around the clock with precisely defined behavior.
Appointment Booking
Schedules appointments during the conversation with instant confirmation.
Order Processing
Fast 24/7 automated request handling - no waiting, no missed orders.
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