Industries, Dental & Orthodontics
AI front desk for dental practices and orthodontists.
New-patient calls get answered while your front desk is checking someone out, the schedule fills itself, and lapsed patients come back, without hiring another receptionist.
A new-patient call goes to voicemail. That's a $3,000 lifetime patient lost in 30 seconds.
Your front desk is one or two people, and they're busy: checking patients out, verifying insurance, handling the lobby. When a new-patient call comes in during that crush, it goes to voicemail. New patients don't leave voicemails, they call the next practice on their insurance list. A single missed new-patient call is a lifetime of cleanings, fillings, and referrals walking out the door.
Then there's the leak you can measure: no-shows and last-minute cancellations that leave a chair empty and a hygienist idle. And the bigger one you can't see, the patients who haven't booked a recall in 18 months and quietly became someone else's patients.
Hiring solves none of this cleanly. Another front-desk hire is expensive, hard to staff, and still goes home at 5pm. The calls and forms that come in evenings and weekends, when people actually have time to deal with the dentist, keep going unanswered.
Real client
Proof from a sister market: 10 booked jobs in week one.
Our first client is an independent auto shop outside Detroit. Different business, identical mechanics: before the AI receptionist went live, after-hours calls died in voicemail and new leads went to the next name on the list. In its first week live, the system booked 10 appointments the shop would have lost.
Swap 'oil change' for 'new-patient exam' and the workflow is the same. A prospective patient calls during your lunch block or fills out a form at 9pm. The agent answers in seconds, collects the insurance and reason for the visit, and puts a real appointment on the schedule before they shop your competitor down the street.
The system, end to end.
New-patient calls, always answered
When the front desk is slammed or the office is closed, the agent picks up, captures insurance and chief complaint, and books the new-patient exam. The first practice to answer usually wins the patient.
24/7 online booking
Chat on your site, plus Instagram and Facebook DMs, route into your scheduler. Patients book the slot they want at 10pm without a phone call, the way they book everything else.
No-show and recall reminders
Automated SMS and email reminders cut no-shows, and recall reminders nudge patients due for a cleaning back into the chair before they drift.
Lapsed-patient reactivation
A tailored text campaign to patients who haven't been in for 12+ months pulls dormant revenue back onto the schedule. See the database reactivation page for how the campaign runs.
Insurance-aware qualification
The agent collects carrier and plan details up front and flags out-of-network callers so your team isn't doing eligibility triage on the phone during the rush.
Reviews that build trust
After a visit, the system requests a Google review at the moment patients are happiest, the reviews that decide which practice a new patient chooses.
Want the deeper product breakdown? See the AI Receptionist page or jump straight to pricing.
Built for independent practices across Chicagoland.
From a solo general practice in Lincoln Park to a multi-op group in Naperville or an orthodontist in Schaumburg, the bottleneck is the same: a small front-desk team that can't be on the phone and in the lobby at once. The system covers the calls and messages they can't get to, without changing how the practice runs day to day.
Everything stays HIPAA-conscious and in your accounts: your phone number, your scheduler, your patient list. The agent collects what it needs to book and flags anything clinical for your team rather than trying to answer it. It schedules; your clinicians and front desk stay in control of care.
Evenings and weekends are the unlock. The single biggest window for new-patient booking is when people are off work and finally dealing with the toothache they've ignored for a week, exactly when most practices are dark.
Common questions.
- Is this HIPAA-compliant?
- The agent is built to collect only what's needed to schedule, name, contact, insurance, and reason for visit, and to route anything clinical to your team rather than answer it. We configure it conservatively and keep patient data in your own accounts. We'll walk your office through exactly what is and isn't captured during onboarding.
- Does it integrate with our practice management software?
- By default we book into a connected calendar and push the patient details into your workflow via email and automation, which covers most front-office setups without custom work. Tighter, direct integrations are scoped on the Climbing plan when your PMS supports it.
- Can it reactivate patients who haven't been in for a while?
- Yes. We run a one-time reactivation campaign against your list of lapsed patients, a tailored SMS that re-engages them and routes replies into live booking. It's one of the fastest ways to fill near-term openings from patients you already earned.
- Will patients know they're talking to AI?
- The agent is straightforward and on-brand, not a gimmick pretending to be a person. Most patients just experience it as a fast, helpful front desk that answered immediately and got them booked. Anything outside its scope hands off to your team with the full context.
- How fast can a practice go live?
- Most practices are live in 5 to 7 days on Awake. We connect your scheduler, train the agent on your services, providers, and insurance setup, and test it before any real patients reach it. The Climbing plan with voice AI takes 10 to 14 days.
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