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DENTAL · SHERWOOD PARK
After-hours call answering for Sherwood Park dental offices
Phone rings first4.2s response30-day guarantee
Lapsed-recall calls are the steady job most front desks postpone. The patient calls back at 8:15am for a hygiene booking. The front desk is helping a walk-in. The call goes to voicemail.
A Tuesday in Sherwood Park
Tuesday at 9am the front desk in your Sherwood Park dental office is on the phone with insurance about a denied claim. A new call comes in. The first call of the day is a emergency tooth pain that started overnight. It rolls to voicemail and the caller hangs up without leaving a message.
The 4pm call is a patient with a cracked molar that started hurting yesterday. Reception is checking in two patients at the counter. By close of business there's an after-hours call too, a knocked-out tooth from a sports injury. Two missed calls, two unbooked appointments, no way to recover them tomorrow.
What changes
Avidra answers your phone, however you've wired it. Live with AI voice, or text-back if the call goes missed, or both running together. The caller gets a real response. You get the captured lead.
The Tuesday morning call still happens. The front desk still can't answer when it's already on another line. Now the patient gets a text in under five seconds asking the basics. By the time the front desk is free, the lead is qualified and sitting in your inbox.
How you wire it up
Avidra runs two ways. Keep your existing business number and forward to Avidra only when you can't pick up. The caller reaches you first. The AI handles the miss. Or use the Avidra number directly and let AI pick up every call, transferring to you when the caller asks. Most shops start with the first setup. The second works better once you've grown past one person on the phone.
The Free tier includes both AI voice answering and SMS text-back, so the pickup-mode choice doesn't cost extra.
What it costs
Free for 14 days. No card to start. Plans after the trial run from a flat monthly rate, not per-call. Most dental offices pay less per month than the value of one recovered job. See the pricing page for current numbers.
The phone end of your practice
Avidra owns the phone end of your practice. It picks up calls, runs the qualifier, captures the booking request, and relays the messages you ask it to send. Everything past the phone stays with you. Scheduling, billing, charting, treatment planning all live in your existing tools.
It doesn't book the appointment. It doesn't verify insurance. It doesn't quote coverage. The text captures the request and tells the patient a person will follow up. Everything that needs a human voice stays with your front desk.
The math on your missed calls
The numbers on a dental office your size.
6 calls/week missed$600 avg appointment$3,600 / week$15,600 / month$187,200 / year
73% of patients don't leave a voicemail. They call the next dental office on Google.
Avidra catches them in 4.2 seconds.
Calls dental offices in Sherwood Park actually take
The calls that land most often go something like this. Treatment plan question after a recent visit. Wisdom tooth consult for a 19-year-old. Invisalign consult booking. Recall hygiene appointment booking. Each is an appointment that books when reception answers in time.
After hours, the caller is usually anxious. Time is short and the patience for a callback tomorrow is shorter. Post-extraction bleeding that hasn't slowed. Knocked-out tooth from a sports injury. Fast pickup is the difference between booking the appointment and watching the patient call the next practice on the list.
What the year looks like
January spike when insurance benefits reset. Steady through the year with a dip in mid-summer and another late December.
Volume changes by season. Pickup rate shouldn't. Avidra fires the text-back the same way in February as it does in July, on a slow Tuesday or during a heat-advisory week.
How setup actually works
Setup is forwarding plus a script. Your existing business number forwards to Avidra so the AI picks up live calls and catches the ones that ring through to voicemail. You edit the default intake script in both directions. Voice and SMS share the same questions.
Most owners are live the same day. The test is a single call from another phone. The AI answers the call, walks the caller through the intake script, and captures the lead. After that, ring busy and watch the text-back fire.
Why speed matters more than channel
The lead is warm for about five minutes after the call. After that, the caller has scrolled to the next name and most likely already dialed. Email lands too slowly to matter for booking decisions made in that first five minutes. A text-back inside seconds keeps the caller engaged through a short intake while you finish the current job. By the time you call back, the lead is qualified and already expecting your voice.
Common questions
What if a patient wants pricing?
The script defers pricing to a callback from the front desk. Avidra never quotes.
What about referrals from another practice?
Referral calls can be flagged in the intake. The script asks who referred them and any treatment notes from the referring office.
Will it book appointments directly?
Booking is the front desk's call. Avidra captures the request and the preferred timing.
Will it handle insurance claim follow-up calls?
It captures the inquiry and routes it to the billing team.
Will it work with our existing PMS?
The lead summary webhooks into most practice-management systems.
Try Avidra on your own number
Point your missed calls at Avidra and see the first text-back land. Free for 14 days. No card to start. Same intake. Same lead summary. Sherwood Park or anywhere else we work.
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