AI phone system for dental practices
AI phone system for dental practices
Capture new patients, tooth emergencies, hygiene recall, post-op questions, insurance questions, and billing callbacks while the front desk is with patients.
Meet Your Dental AI Employee
PhoneMachine answers calls for dental, qualifies the request, captures the details, routes urgent work, and gives your team the clean next step.
What it handles for dental:
New patient intakeCollect reason, insurance, urgency, preferred times, and family members.
Dental emergencyBroken tooth, swelling, pain level, bleeding, trauma, and same-day urgency.
Recall and hygieneSupport outbound rebooking and no-show recovery.
Post-op concernCapture symptoms and route to clinical staff; do not give medical advice.
Insurance and billingCapture plan, subscriber, question, and callback route.
Cosmetic consultCollect treatment goal, timeline, and consultation preference.
Why dental teams choose PhoneMachine
Dental front desks are busy in person, and new patients do not wait. One missed emergency or cosmetic consult can be worth years of software.
Capture
Lunch-hour lost patient
A new patient calls while the front desk is at lunch. The AI collects insurance, urgency, and preferred times.
Route
After-hours toothache
A tooth emergency after closing becomes a structured callback instead of a lost patient.
Follow up
No-show recovery
Patients who miss hygiene appointments can be called with a friendly rebook script.
Automate
HIPAA anxiety
The AI avoids clinical advice and routes protected questions with careful summaries.
How it works
Answer, understand, route, follow up.
Dental caller reaches you
Use a PhoneMachine number or forward the line customers already call.
AI handles the front desk work
It follows your dental scripts, FAQs, escalation rules, and caller history.
The conversation becomes structured data
Transcript, summary, tags, urgency, contact updates, and next action are saved.
Your team gets a clean handoff
Call back, text, assign a task, route urgent work, or launch approved follow-up.
Dental call handling, built in
Every vertical page keeps the current PhoneMachine system, with the scripts, boundaries, and intake fields changed for dental.
Voice
Voice
Answers dental calls 24/7 and captures intent.
Text / SMS
Text / SMS
Sends links, reminders, confirmations, and follow-up replies with consent controls.
Outbound
Outbound
Runs approved callback and follow-up scripts without inventing promises.
Knowledge
Knowledge
Uses approved dental FAQs, policies, fields, and never-say rules.
Team handoff
Team handoff
Moves the conversation into your shared inbox with context and next steps.
Live call example
Hear the AI handle a dental call.
Broken tooth is the kind of scenario the page is built around.
Broken tooth
CALLERI broke a crown and it hurts.
PHONEMACHINEI can mark this urgent. Are you having swelling, bleeding, fever, or trouble swallowing?
CALLERNo fever, but pain.
PHONEMACHINEI will capture that as a broken crown with pain and request a same-day callback.
Explainer
How PhoneMachine works for dental.
Use this walkthrough for the vertical-specific positioning, then test the same AI phone system live on the demo line.
The math
One captured new patient can cover years of phone coverage.
Dental new-patient lifetime value is often high. Even one saved emergency or family appointment can make the system pay back quickly.
Guardrails for dental
The AI uses the same PhoneMachine workflow with industry-specific safety and compliance boundaries.
HIPAA readiness
Covered practices should use HIPAA-ready workflows and a BAA when PHI is handled.
Clinical escalation
Symptoms and post-op concerns route to staff; the AI does not diagnose.
Consent and recording
Recording and messaging workflows should follow practice policy and law.
AI Receptionist
Starter
AI answers, records, and summarizes calls for one-person businesses.
$39/mo billed annually
Monthly option: $49/mo
Start free trial- 120 AI voice minutes / mo
What's included
- 1 business number + 2 users
- Inbound SMS inbox + outbound SMS (after carrier approval)
- Call recording + transcripts
- Browser video links
- 25 fax pages / mo
Best ValueMost popular
Business
The full AI phone system for growing teams.
$99/mo billed annually
Monthly option: $129/mo
Start free trial- 300 AI voice minutes / mo · 500 SMS / mo
What's included
- 5 users + 2 numbers included
- AI auto-learning + knowledge base
- API keys + webhooks
- Team chat + internal video
- Review collection + SMS keywords
Outbound Automation
Business Pro
Outbound automation for teams that run larger calling lists.
$239/mo billed annually
Monthly option: $299/mo
Start free trial- 600 AI voice minutes / mo · 1,000 SMS / mo
What's included
- Unlimited users + 2 numbers included
- Power Dial Contacts & Campaigns (voice + SMS)
- SMS drip automation
- Sentiment + predictive follow-up
- Voicemail drop
Enterprise
Enterprise
Custom — built for your team.
Custom
Contact Sales- Custom voice + SMS pool
What's included
- Custom users and numbers
- SSO, SCIM, audit logs
- Dedicated account manager + custom AI training
Dental setup
What the AI needs to know.
Emergency screening+
Pain, swelling, bleeding, trauma, fever, breathing/swallowing risk, broken tooth/crown, and appointment urgency.
New patient intake+
Insurance, treatment goal, last visit, family members, preferred times, and referral source.
Recall rules+
Hygiene due, no-show, family scheduling, and reactivation scripts.
Clinical guardrails+
Capture symptoms and route; do not diagnose, prescribe, or give clinical instructions.
Never-say rules+
Do not confirm coverage, quote final patient responsibility, or provide medical advice.
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