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 · HALIFAX
AI phone receptionist for dental offices in Halifax
Phone rings first4.2s response30-day guarantee
A patient's molar cracked on a piece of bread last night. They called your office at 7:50 the next morning, before the front desk opened. The call went to voicemail and they called the practice across town.
When the phone rings and you can't
Reception is on hold with a benefits desk and the next call rolls to voicemail.
What Avidra does
Avidra is a text-back system that runs the second you miss a call. The caller gets a real reply, not a voicemail loop. You get a structured lead with the basics filled in.
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 missed calls
Step 1 · Missed call detected
Any unanswered call to your business number triggers an instant SMS to the caller. No setup per call, no manual approval.
Step 2 · SMS qualifier
The text uses your script. The caller sees the questions you'd ask in person. Most respond inside a minute.
Step 3 · Job summary to your phone
When the caller finishes the intake, Avidra hands you the summary. The format is intentionally boring: who, where, what, when.
Step 4 · You decide when to call back
Avidra holds the conversation while you finish the current job. The caller stays warm. You decide if and when to follow up.
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.
Both pickup modes run on the Free tier. AI voice answering and SMS text-back are included at $0, with 30 voice minutes a month.
Where Avidra stops
Avidra handles the intake call, the back-and-forth qualifying, and the relay messages you ask it to send to your patients. The phone is the part it owns. The work past it stays with you and 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 Halifax actually take
Most of these will look familiar. Emergency tooth pain that started overnight. New patient exam booking with insurance verification. Recall hygiene appointment booking. Treatment plan question after a recent visit. 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.
Setup is short
Setup is a 10-digit phone number and a short script. You forward your missed calls to the Avidra number that gets assigned at signup. You edit the default intake script to match how you talk to a new lead. That's the whole setup.
Most owners run their first real test inside an hour of signing up. The honest test is to miss a call on purpose from a friend's phone and watch what happens. The text fires. The follow-up questions land. You see the lead summary on your phone.
The five-second window
Speed is the whole game. A caller who got voicemail and then got a confirmation email twenty minutes later has already booked the next number on the list. A text-back inside five seconds reads as a real reply. The caller responds while they're still mentally on the call. The human 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.
Will it book appointments directly?
Booking is the front desk's call. Avidra captures the request and the preferred timing.
Will it work with our existing PMS?
The lead summary webhooks into most practice-management systems.
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.
Can the script accept other languages?
Yes. A second-language script can be configured.
Try Avidra on your own number
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