The promise
If Avidra doesn't recover 3 booked appointments in your first 30 days, I refund everything and disconnect you myself.
No forms. No retention call.
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DENTAL · BURNABY
AI phone receptionist for dental offices in Burnaby
Phone rings first4.2s response30-day guarantee
Your hygienist column is open Tuesday and you've been calling no-shows. A first-time consult tries to book during that exact window. They got the auto-attendant and didn't leave a message.
When the phone rings and you can't
The front desk steps away to grab a chart. The call rings out before they're back.
What Avidra does
Avidra answers your phone with AI voice the moment a call lands. The caller hears a real voice. You get a structured lead summary on your phone, the same way a text would arrive.
The text doesn't replace the human conversation. It buys time for it. You still call back. You still close the job. Avidra just makes sure the lead is warm and the basics about the patients are in your inbox before you do.
How Avidra answers your calls
Step 1 · AI picks up
When the phone rings, Avidra picks up before voicemail can. The greeting is yours, recorded or text-to-speech, your call.
Step 2 · Qualifies the caller live
Your intake script runs in real time. Name, address, what's going on, urgency. The conversation reads like a normal one.
Step 3 · Transfers to you when they ask, or summarizes when they don't
Transfer on request: 'can I talk to Mike?' routes to Mike's cell. No transfer, and the AI wraps the call with the lead captured.
Step 4 · Lead summary lands on your phone
The lead summary lands as a regular SMS. You can read it between jobs without opening an app.
Two ways to set it up
Two setup paths. Path one is forwarding: your existing business number stays the front door, calls ring to your phone, and Avidra only catches the unanswered ones. Path two is direct: the Avidra number is the front door, AI picks up every call live, and it transfers to your cell when the caller asks for a human. Most one-truck shops use path one. Larger shops with reception coverage usually move to path two.
The Free tier includes both AI voice answering and SMS text-back, so the pickup-mode choice doesn't cost extra.
What Avidra does and doesn't
Avidra answers calls live with AI voice, or texts missed callers back if you'd rather. It runs your intake script. It captures the appointment request and relays messages to your patients when you ask. What it doesn't do: replace your front desk, schedule treatments, pull patient history from your scheduling system, or run your billing.
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 Burnaby actually take
Here's what your line catches on a normal week. Cracked molar after biting on something hard. Emergency tooth pain that started overnight. Wisdom tooth consult for a 19-year-old. Recall hygiene appointment booking. Each one is a booking your front desk would close if they could pick up.
After-hours patterns are tighter. The questions are shorter and the patience is thinner. Knocked-out tooth from a sports injury. Post-extraction bleeding that hasn't slowed. Whoever answers first lands the appointment. Everyone else gets the voicemail tone.
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.
Most dental offices can predict the peaks. The trick is keeping pickup steady through them. Avidra doesn't surge-price during your busy weeks and doesn't go quiet during the slow ones.
Getting Avidra answering your phone
Setup is two minutes. You connect your business number to Avidra, either by porting it or by setting your existing line to ring the Avidra number. The AI picks up from then on. You edit the default intake script to sound like your office, and the first real call uses your voice and your business name.
Most owners are live before lunch on the day they sign up. The honest test is to call your own line and have the AI answer. The questions land. The summary fires. You see the intake on your phone.
Why live pickup beats voicemail
Voicemail is where service leads go to die. A homeowner who hits voicemail at 7pm and gets a callback at 9am has already booked the next name on the list. Avidra picks up live, so the conversation starts in the first ring. By the time the caller would have hung up on voicemail, the AI has already captured the caller's name and address along with the basics of the call. The follow-up callback then lands into a warm conversation, not a cold one.
Common questions
What if a patient wants pricing?
The script defers pricing to a callback from the front desk. Avidra never quotes.
What about new-patient versus existing-patient calls?
The first question branches the intake. New patients get a different question set than existing patients.
Can the script accept other languages?
Yes. A second-language script can be configured.
Will it handle dental emergencies?
Yes. Emergencies are flagged and the lead summary pushes to the top of the inbox. Most practices set after-hours scripts to direct urgent cases to an on-call line.
Will it handle insurance claim follow-up calls?
It captures the inquiry and routes it to the billing team.
Try Avidra on your own number
Avidra answers your missed calls starting today. Free for 14 days, no card up front. See pricing for what comes after. The same product runs in Burnaby as it does in every other market we cover.
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