The phone rings when
nobody can answer.
Toothache does not wait for opening hours. The patient who calls at nine in the evening reaches voicemail and calls the next practice: while reception loses an afternoon to the same five questions, every day. An AI agent for dental practices answers those questions the moment they are asked, day or night, and turns them into appointment requests reception only has to confirm in the morning.
Book a demoWhat an AI chatbot for dental practices answers after you close
- Do you have anything sooner? It really hurts.Urgency has to be recognised, not queued.
- Do you treat anxious patients, or children?Already on your website. Asked constantly anyway.
- What do I need to bring to a first appointment?The question reception answers most often.
One conversation, two outcomes
On the left, what the patient sees at 21:12. On the right, what reception finds at eight in the morning.
- Reason
- Symptom
- Patient
- Slot held
- Name
- To bring
Reception opens a prepared appointment, not a voicemail to call back.
Where an AI agent for dental practices stops and fetches a person
- Hours & first free slotsWhat is open, and when
- Treatments you publishScope, steps, aftercare
- What to bring alongReferral, card, records
- Any languageReplies in the one they wrote in
- Anything like a diagnosisNever attempted
- The cost of a treatment planNeeds an examination
- Insurance coverageDepends on the policy
- Severe pain or bleedingEscalated immediately
Why this is an agent, not just a dental chatbot
A dental chatbot answers the question and leaves reception to do the rest. This agent takes the evening enquiry all the way to a slot request on the right day, with the treatment, the urgency and the patient details already in it.
Chatbot or agent? The difference in practiceThe one deployment we can show numbers for
It is not from this industry, and implying otherwise would be a bad way to start. The client is a cross-border document services firm that has asked us not to use its name yet — a different trade with the same shape of problem, where every enquiry needs five to fifteen minutes of clarifying before anyone can quote. In its first month live the agent handled 500 conversations, filed 500 structured leads, escalated to a human zero times, and gave back roughly 80 hours of specialist time. 49% of those conversations started outside working hours.
Read the numbers in fullQuestions practices ask us
Can it give medical advice?
No. It answers what your own site publishes: hours, treatments, preparation, and routes anything clinical to your team.
Can it actually book, or only ask?
It can hold a slot for reception to confirm, or book directly into your calendar. You choose which.
What happens with an urgent case?
Wording that signals urgency is flagged and sent straight to a person, with the conversation attached.
Will patients know it is not a human?
Yes. It introduces itself as an assistant in its first message.
Is this a telephone assistant?
No. It works on your website and in your messaging channels, not on the phone line. It removes the reason most people ring in the first place: availability, preparation, costs, what to bring, and turns those questions into appointment requests.
Can it recognise an urgent case?
It flags urgency by criteria you set: pain, swelling, a lost filling, and routes those to whatever you define as the urgent path, rather than treating them like a routine booking request.
What does it do with patient information?
It collects only the fields you define for a booking request and hands them over. Anything clinical is routed to a person rather than answered: nothing about diagnosis or treatment suitability is improvised.
What does an AI agent for dental practices cost?
AgentDeck starts at €250 a month for the text channels, flat, with no charge per conversation. Setup and configuration are quoted once on top, and voice calling is billed per minute. What moves the setup figure is how much is already published: a practice with treatment pages and preparation notes online is quicker to ground than one where reception holds it all.
See it handle
your evening calls.
Bring three enquiries reception answered last week. We will show the agent handling them.
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