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The call you missed at 6:47pm just booked itself.

You cannot hire a front desk person right now, and the one you have cannot answer three lines at once. This one answers every call and every text, answers real questions about your practice, books into your actual schedule, and hands off to a human the moment it should.

Answers 24/7Books on real held slotsCall audio under BAAEscalates, never guesses
app.enamel.dental · AI Front Desk
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Matched to patient recordPT-40219
Answered: "Do you take Delta PPO?"grounded
Held slot · Thu 3:20pmconfirmed
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After-hours calls
38 this month
Booked by AI
61%
Illustrative preview — synthetic data, not an actual patient record.
24/7
answered — including the 30% of new-patient calls that come in after hours
Never double-booked
it holds the same real slots your online booking uses, not a separate calendar
In the chart
every call ends with a summary and transcript on the patient record
Hands off
anything clinical or uncertain goes to a human, with the call already written up
How it works

It answers, it resolves, and it knows when to stop.

The failure mode of an AI receptionist is confident nonsense. This one is built around the handoff.

1

It answers

Voice or text, first ring, at any hour. It identifies the caller against the patient record when it can.

2

It resolves or books

Hours, insurance accepted, what a crown costs, whether you see kids — answered from your own content. Then it books, reschedules or cancels through the scheduling spine.

3

It hands off cleanly

Clinical questions, upset callers and anything it is unsure about go to a human with the full transcript already attached.

Capabilities

A receptionist, not a phone tree.

Everything a new-patient call needs to end in a booking.

AI voice answering

Natural turn-taking on a real phone line, with barge-in, so callers are not fighting a menu.

Chat and SMS

The same brain on your website widget and your practice number, on the patient’s existing thread.

Books through the spine

It holds and confirms real slots through the shared scheduling lock — it cannot double-book against online booking.

Grounded answers

It answers from your practice’s own content. If the answer is not there, it says so and takes a message.

Escalation rules

Clinical questions, emergencies and low-confidence turns route to a human, with the reason recorded.

Summaries and transcripts

Every call ends with a structured summary on the patient record, searchable and audited.

Better together

A receptionist that cannot see the chart is just an answering service.

The difference between a bot and a front desk is context — and context is exactly what a shared record gives it.

One conversation, not two

Staff and the AI work the same thread, so a patient never has to repeat themselves to a human.

Patient Engagement →
It can answer the balance question

"How much do I owe?" is answerable because billing is on the same record — with the audit trail to prove who asked.

Revenue Cycle →
It can route cosmetic callers

A veneers question at 9pm becomes a smile consult link instead of a callback nobody makes.

Virtual Smile Consult →
Answered versus booked

Call volume, containment rate and calls that became appointments — as one funnel, not a vendor PDF.

Practice Analytics →
Compliance & trust

Live call audio is the highest-risk PHI flow in the practice.

Everything about this product is designed around that fact, including which vendors are allowed to hear it.

Every voice vendor under a signed BAA

The phone carrier, the speech-to-text and the voice synthesis all operate under signed Business Associate Agreements before a single real patient call is handled.

Recordings stay locked down

Call recordings and transcripts live in encrypted storage behind expiring access links — never on a shared web server.

Calls never train a model

The company that powers the voice never keeps the recording. We log that the call happened; they keep nothing.

It escalates instead of guessing

Anything clinical goes to your staff rather than getting a guessed answer, and every handoff is logged with the reason it happened.

In your practice

Three lines ringing at once, and one person at the desk.

You cannot hire fast enough, the phone does not care, and every new-patient call that goes to voicemail is a case that books down the road instead.

4:55pm Friday

The call still gets answered.

New patient, wants to know if you take their plan and when you could see them. They are on the schedule before you have locked the front door.

A busy Tuesday morning

Line two does not go to voicemail.

Your front desk stays with the patient standing in front of them, and the second and third callers still get a real answer instead of a mailbox.

Anything clinical

It hands off instead of guessing.

Pain, swelling, a patient who is upset — routed straight to a person, with the call already summarized so nobody starts from scratch.

What your team stops doing
Working through twelve voicemails at 8am
Losing new-patient calls to a full mailbox
Retraining a temp on your insurance list every few months
Wondering how many calls you actually missed last week
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Count the calls you missed last week.

We will run the numbers on your after-hours volume and show you what the AI would have booked.

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AI Front Desk handles scheduling and practice information. It does not provide clinical advice; clinical questions are escalated to licensed staff.