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 · STOUFFVILLE
AI phone receptionist for dental offices in Stouffville
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
The first thing the caller hears is the AI receptionist saying who you are. No menu, no 'press 1 for sales.'
Step 2 · Qualifies the caller live
The AI walks the caller through the questions you'd ask. Configurable per trade, per shop, per script.
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
You get a text recap of the call within seconds of it ending. Same lead-summary format as the SMS-only setup.
Pick a pickup mode
You decide who picks up first. Run the human-first mode: your phone rings, and Avidra only steps in if the call goes unanswered. Or run the AI-first mode: Avidra picks up live and transfers when the caller wants a human. Most shops start human-first because the customer relationship still flows through you. AI-first makes sense once the volume is past what one person can handle.
The Free tier includes both AI voice answering and SMS text-back, so the pickup-mode choice doesn't cost extra.
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 Stouffville actually take
Here's what your line catches on a normal week. Wisdom tooth consult for a 19-year-old. Cracked molar after biting on something hard. Treatment plan question after a recent visit. Denture adjustment for a long-time patient. 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. Post-extraction bleeding that hasn't slowed. Knocked-out tooth from a sports injury. 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 about new-patient versus existing-patient calls?
The first question branches the intake. New patients get a different question set than existing patients.
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.
Can the script accept other languages?
Yes. A second-language script can be configured.
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.
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 Stouffville as it does in every other market we cover.
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