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After-hours AI receptionist for dental practices that books appointments directly into your EHR, even when your office is closed

Dental calls coming in evenings, weekends, and holidays are answered by AI, intelligently triaged, and booked into your EHR calendar. No missed leads, no voicemail boxes.

How it pays back

Never Miss an After-Hours Call Again

Every call is answered, even at 2 AM on a Sunday. No voicemail, no dead phone line. Callers reach you or get a path to urgent care if needed.

Book Appointments Without Waking Staff

Routine calls book automatically into next available EHR slots. Urgent cases escalate smartly. Your team wakes to a populated schedule, not a backlog of voicemails.

Keep Patients In-House

After-hours callers with pain can be triaged to urgent care or offered an emergency slot. Many stay in your practice instead of going elsewhere, keeping revenue in-house.

Segment Urgent from Routine

You define what's urgent: pain level, bleeding, broken restorations. The system escalates intelligently. Routine questions get answered; true emergencies get a live person immediately.

Urgent escalation

Real-time SMS alert to on-call provider for emergency calls

EHR write on booking

After-hours appointments appear in your EHR calendar immediately

Structured intake capture

Chief complaint, insurance, contact info logged for staff review

Frequently asked questions

How do urgent after-hours calls get routed to my on-call dentist?

You define urgency triggers (tooth pain, bleeding, broken tooth, denture issues, etc.). When the AI detects an urgent call, it sends a real-time SMS or push notification to your designated on-call provider with caller name, issue, and callback number. The provider can take the call or authorize a referral to an urgent care partner.

Can patients book appointments for the next business day after-hours?

Yes. The AI has read-only access to your next-business-day EHR schedule. Callers can choose from available times, and the booking writes to your EHR immediately. Staff see it first thing in the morning, fully populated.

What if the patient is established and I want their full chart visible?

The system pulls the patient's phone number or name from your EHR and retrieves their record. Relevant history (current medications, allergies, recent procedures) is noted during triage. All details are returned to staff as a structured summary for chart review before the appointment.

Do my staff get notified about after-hours bookings?

Yes. Bookings are logged in your EHR immediately. You can also set up SMS or email alerts to a team member if you want notification the same night, so they know about tomorrow's additions first thing.

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