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# AI Receptionist for Dental Practices
The hidden cost of missed calls at your dental practice
Your front desk is busy. Patients are checking in, insurance cards are being scanned, someone's on hold, and the phone rings for the fourth time in ten minutes. Something has to give — and usually it's the phone.
Every missed call is a patient who might book with the practice down the street instead. New patient inquiries, emergency callers in pain, people trying to reschedule — if they hit voicemail, a lot of them just hang up and call the next name on their insurance list. You don't get a report on the patients you lost to a missed call. You just don't see them again.
This isn't a staffing problem you fix by hiring one more person. Front desk staff need lunch breaks, get sick, and can't be in two places — on a call and at the check-in counter — at once. The phone keeps ringing whether or not someone's free to answer it.
What a dedicated dental AI receptionist actually does
PushButton's AI Receptionist Build Pack for dental practices is built specifically to answer, understand, and act on the calls your practice gets every day — not a generic chatbot repurposed for healthcare.
It handles:
- Appointment booking and rescheduling — checks your calendar in real time and books directly into open slots.
- Insurance and coverage questions — answers common questions about accepted plans, PPO networks, and what's needed for a visit.
- New patient intake — collects the basic info your front desk needs before the patient walks in.
- Recall and reminder calls — outbound calls for six-month cleanings, treatment follow-ups, and no-show recovery.
- Emergency triage — identifies urgent calls (pain, swelling, trauma) and routes them appropriately instead of leaving them in a voicemail queue.
It sounds like a person, follows your practice's specific scripts and policies, and never puts a patient on hold because it's dealing with someone else.
How it works: phone number, calendar & PMS integration in days, not months
This is a licensed, configured platform — not a DIY bot builder you have to figure out yourself. Setup looks like this:
- Discovery call. We learn your call types, scheduling rules, insurance list, and how you want edge cases handled.
- Build. We configure the voice agent on your dedicated phone number (new or ported) and connect it to your calendar and practice management system (Dentrix, Eaglesoft, Open Dental, and others).
- Test. You listen to real call scenarios and request changes before it goes live.
- Launch. Calls start routing through the agent, with fallback to your team any time it's needed.
Most practices are live within one to two weeks — not the months typical of a custom software project.
What you get + pricing
The AI Receptionist Build Pack includes:
- Dedicated phone number (or number porting)
- Custom-configured voice agent trained on your practice's scripts, hours, and policies
- Calendar and PMS integration
- Insurance FAQ and intake configuration
- Recall/reminder outbound calling setup
- Ongoing monitoring and script updates
Pricing: a one-time setup fee for build and integration, plus a flat monthly license fee to run the platform. No per-call charges, no long-term contract lock-in. Exact pricing depends on integrations and call volume — you'll get a specific quote after the discovery call.
AI receptionist vs. answering service vs. in-house front desk staff
- In-house staff are great with patients in the office but can't answer every call while also managing the front desk. Turnover and training add ongoing cost.
- Answering services pick up the phone but usually can't book directly into your calendar or answer plan-specific insurance questions — they just take a message.
- PushButton's AI receptionist books directly into your schedule, answers practice-specific questions, runs 24/7, and costs a predictable flat fee instead of per-minute answering service rates.
FAQ
Is this HIPAA compliant? Yes. The platform is configured with HIPAA-appropriate handling of patient information, and we'll walk through your specific compliance requirements during setup.
Can it transfer calls to a live person? Yes. Any call — emergency, complex, or simply a patient who asks for a human — can be routed to your front desk or on-call staff.
Does it work after hours and on weekends? Yes. That's one of the most common reasons practices adopt it — after-hours and weekend calls get answered instead of going to voicemail.
Can one platform cover multiple locations? Yes. Each location can have its own number, calendar, and scripts, managed under one account.
Start your dental AI receptionist trial
Missed calls aren't a mystery — they're patients choosing someone else because no one picked up. Book a demo and we'll show you exactly how the AI receptionist would handle your practice's real call scenarios, insurance questions, and scheduling rules.
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