AI receptionist for dental practices
One AI receptionist. 24/7 coverage.
Always-on coverage
Callerbot answers every call 24/7, books dental appointments, and brings in your team when a caller needs a human. Nights, weekends, holidays, and lunch rushes stay covered.
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Who it's for
Solo & single-location practices where one or two people carry the whole phone.
Growing groups (2–5 locations) that need consistent phone coverage across every office.
Specialty practices, including ortho, perio, endo, oral surgery, and pediatric, with referral and new-patient calls to protect.
From the front desk
The phone used to roll to voicemail every lunch hour and we'd lose new patients to the practice down the street. Now every call gets answered and booked before we're even back from break.
I was skeptical about an AI answering the phone. Patients don't care. They just want an appointment, fast. Anything tricky comes straight to my team with the whole conversation attached.
Evenings and weekends, those calls just used to disappear. Callerbot books them overnight, so the hygiene schedule is already full when we walk in on Monday.
The problem
The average dental practice can't catch every call. The front desk is on another line, at lunch, or gone for the day. Here is what call-tracking research across thousands of practices consistently shows.
During business hours, roughly a third of new-patient calls go unanswered or aren't handled well enough to book the visit.
A large share of calls land outside 9–5, including evenings, early mornings, and weekends. After hours, nearly all of them reach voicemail.
Most new patients who hit voicemail hang up and call another office, often within minutes.
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What it does
Callerbot is built around how dental front desks actually work, not a generic phone bot with a dental script.
Captures name, contact details, insurance and reason for the visit, then books the first appointment.
Offers real open slots by provider and visit type and books directly into your practice software.
Handles changes without tying up the front desk, then offers the freed slot to patients who are waiting.
Answers "do you take my plan?" and common coverage questions from your practice's own rules.
Covers evenings, weekends and holidays. Books routine visits; routes possible emergencies by your protocol.
Follows up with patients due for hygiene or overdue for treatment to keep chairs full.
Handles calls in English and Spanish so more of your patients get a real conversation.
Knows its limits and connects the patient to your team, with full context, when a human is the right call.
Traditional vs. AI
An honest comparison AI isn't better at everything, and this table says so.
| In-house front desk | Phone answering service | Callerbot AI | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Answers every call, including the 2nd caller | Limited, one line during business hours | Yes | Yes, unlimited at once |
| 24/7, including nights, weekends & holidays | No | Some, live services only | Yes |
| Books into your PMS in real time | Yes | Often not, takes messages | Yes |
| Reschedules & works the recall list | Yes, when there's time | No | Yes |
| Handles complex clinical or emotional calls | Yes, best at this | Somewhat | No, hands off to your team |
| Typical cost per month | ≈ $4,000+ loaded, per seat | $150 – $1,500+ | from $25/mo |
| Time to get running | Weeks to hire & train | Days | Days |
Pricing
Start small, scale when you need to. Every plan gives your practice AI-powered call coverage without adding another person to the front desk.
For smaller practices getting started with AI call coverage
For practices that want more call capacity and flexibility
For high-volume practices and specialized requirements
Plans are billed monthly. Usage beyond included minutes is charged at $0.05/minute.
The payoff
Answer the calls your competitors are sending to voicemail.
Book the evening and weekend callers who won't call back tomorrow.
No more choosing between the patient in the chair and the ringing phone.
Every caller gets the same friendly, accurate, on-script answer.
Recall and reactivation outreach keeps the chairs booked.
Lunch, sick days, turnover and the holiday closure are all handled.
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