Every implant consult call answered. Even the one at 5:47pm.
An AI receptionist built for oral surgery, implant, and periodontal practices. It answers every call 24/7, books consults straight into your PMS, and routes post-op concerns to your on-call protocol instead of guessing. Built by a doctor. HIPAA-compliant stack with signed BAAs. Live in 7 days.
An AI receptionist for an oral surgery practice answers every inbound call 24/7, schedules implant and extraction consults directly into the PMS, answers financing and insurance questions, and routes post-op or emergency calls to the surgeon’s on-call protocol. It never gives clinical advice. Setup is $1,997 one time, then $797/month, HIPAA-compliant with signed BAAs across the full stack, live in 7 days, 30-day money-back guarantee. At surgical case values ($3,000 to $6,000 per implant, $25,000 to $50,000 per full arch), one recovered consult typically covers more than a year of the service.
Every consult call answered. Post-op calls routed to your protocol.
BUILT BY A DOCTOR · HIPAA COMPLIANT · LIVE IN 7 DAYS
✓ 30-day money-back guarantee · ✓ Live in 7 days · ✓ HIPAA-compliant stack with signed BAAs
An oral surgeon I spoke with recently put it plainly: his front desk is excellent, and his phones still leak. Lunch, 5pm onward, Saturdays, and every minute both lines are busy. The caller who rings at 5:47pm isn’t asking about a cleaning. It’s a patient who finally got a quiet moment to book the full-arch consult they’ve been putting off for months. Most of them don’t leave a voicemail. They call the next practice on Google.
For a general dentist that hurts. For a surgical practice the math is brutal: one missed full-arch caller can be a $25,000 to $50,000 case that no report will ever show you, because you can’t report on a phone that was never answered. This page covers what an AI front desk does differently for surgical practices, how it handles post-op calls safely, and what it costs.
Can an AI receptionist handle calls for an oral surgery practice?
Yes, within strict clinical boundaries. An AI receptionist for oral surgery answers every call, books consults into the PMS, handles financing and insurance questions, and coordinates referrals. It never gives clinical advice: post-op and emergency calls are recognized in seconds and routed to the surgeon’s on-call protocol. Some surgeons think of it as an answering service for oral surgery; the difference is it books the consult instead of taking a message.
Built around how a surgical practice actually runs:
Consult requests booked, day or night. Implant, extraction, and full-arch consult calls get scheduled with the intake details your treatment coordinator needs.
Post-op calls routed, never answered. Swelling, bleeding, and medication questions are flagged in seconds and sent to your on-call line or triage rules. The AI does not play doctor.
Referral offices reach a professional every time. A GP’s front desk that can’t get through today refers somewhere else tomorrow. Protecting referral relationships is half the value.
Financing and insurance questions answered immediately. The two questions that stall big-case acceptance, answered with your fee philosophy and participation list.
Missed-call text-back within 60 seconds. Any caller who slips through gets an immediate text so they book with you, not the next result on Google.
How post-op and emergency calls are routed
Every call is classified in the first seconds. Booking and admin calls are handled end to end. Anything clinical follows the routing rules you approve before go-live.
Calculate your missed-consult leak
Plug in your numbers. The math is conservative and uses industry-standard figures: an answered new-patient call books at roughly 50%, a voicemail at roughly 6%, per American Dental Association practice management research.
YOU ARE LOSING ROUGHLY
$14,850 / month
That’s $178,200 per year in surgical production.
Assumes only 1 in 10 missed callers was calling about a surgical consult. Deliberately conservative.
A WELL-IMPLEMENTED AI FRONT DESK RECOVERS ROUGHLY
$8,910 / month
Conservative 60% recovery rate on previously missed calls. Results vary; outcomes depend on the practice, call mix, and chair availability.
Is it HIPAA compliant?
Only if every vendor touching call audio or patient information signs a Business Associate Agreement, which is where most AI phone products quietly fail. Every RankingMedic deployment includes signed BAAs across the entire stack, an escalation-to-human rule for clinical matters, and a paper trail your compliance officer can review before go-live. The full vendor-by-vendor breakdown lives on our AI receptionist page and our HIPAA-compliant infrastructure page.
I’m a physician. I built this after watching marketing companies push non-compliant tools at specialty practices with zero accountability. If your attorney wants to review the BAA chain before we start, that’s exactly the kind of practice I want to work with.
Two weeks free on your after-hours line. Keep every patient it books.
I’m taking five founding implant and oral surgery practices. The AI front desk runs free on your after-hours and overflow line for 14 days, and every patient it books is yours whether you continue or not. If it earns its place, the $1,997 setup is waived in exchange for a short case study, then it’s $797 a month, cancel anytime, 30-day money back.
What does an AI receptionist cost for an oral surgery practice?
$797 per month plus a one-time $1,997 setup, month to month, with a 30-day money-back guarantee. Pricing is published because hidden pricing wastes everyone’s time. At surgical case values, the service pays for itself if it recovers one implant consult a year, and a typical practice misses more than that in a month. Full comparison on the pricing page.
Questions surgeons actually ask
Will it sound robotic to my patients?
Most callers don’t realize they’re speaking with an AI for the first 30 to 45 seconds, and it answers honestly if asked. What patients reliably hate is voicemail at 6pm. On the walkthrough you’ll hear live call recordings and judge with your own ears.
What happens when a post-op patient calls with swelling or bleeding?
The AI never handles clinical matters. Post-op and emergency calls are identified within seconds and routed to your on-call protocol exactly as you define it during setup. You approve the routing rules before the first live call.
Can it handle referral coordination with GP offices?
Yes. Referring offices reach a professional front desk on every call, referral details are captured completely, and your treatment coordinator gets them organized instead of scribbled on a voicemail transcription.
Which PMS does it integrate with?
Dentrix, Eaglesoft, Open Dental, Curve, Denticon, Carestream, Dolphin, NexHealth, and most major platforms, plus a webhook layer for unusual setups. If yours isn’t listed, it’s added during the 7-day onboarding at no extra cost.
Will my front desk team resent it?
In practice the opposite happens. The AI takes the calls nobody wants: 6pm voicemails, lunch-rush overflow, Saturday insurance questions. Your team walks in to booked consults instead of a callback backlog.
How do I know it’s actually booking patients?
You get every call transcript and a booking log, so you see exactly which patients the AI captured and what each call was worth. Receipts, not dashboards you have to interpret.
Am I locked into a contract?
No. Month to month, cancel anytime, 30-day money-back guarantee. If it stops earning its keep, stop paying for it. The call log makes that judgment easy.
What happens after the free two weeks?
You look at the call log and decide. Continue at $797 a month with the setup fee waived as a founding practice, or walk away and keep every patient it booked. The numbers make the decision for you.
Written and reviewed by Dr. Shahrooz Hassan, MBBS, physician and founder of RankingMedic, the patient acquisition system for dental and specialty practices. Pairs with local visibility and doctor-reviewed patient education as one system. Questions? shah@rankingmedic.com
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