New-patient calls are the ones most likely to hit voicemail
The new-patient call that hits your voicemail during lunch is calling the practice down the street before your front desk gets back.
Your team is already slammed with patients in the chair. The phone doesn't know that — it just rings, and rings, and eventually stops.
Call it right now. That's it answering.
+1 (555) 010-0000No script, no sign-up. Describe a job and see what happens.
Hear it answer a real call
We don't have a recorded dental / ortho practices call up yet — the demo number above is real, so call it and make your own.
What your missed calls are costing you
Drag these to match your shop. It's rough math, on purpose — nobody trusts a calculator that pretends to know your business better than you do.
6
30%
$1,200
Estimated revenue lost per month
$9,353
vs. Dialkeep at $199/mo
+$9,154
net, if it recovers every one of those jobs (it won't catch all of them — no one does)
Dialkeep vs. Weave
| Feature | Dialkeep | Weave |
|---|---|---|
| Pricing model | $199/mo flat, unlimited calls | $300–800+/mo, bundled with hardware/reminders, quote-based |
| Built for solo/small practices | Yes — no multi-location suite required to get started | Priced and packaged for larger practices already buying the full platform |
| Books directly into your calendar | Yes, no front-desk relay | Depends on integration tier purchased |
| Covers lunch hour and after-hours | 24/7, no staffing gap | Covered if the platform's answering add-on is active |
| Speaks Spanish | Yes, same call, no transfer | Not a standard feature of the core platform |
| Remembers returning callers | Yes — recognizes a patient calling back about the same issue | Pulls from PMS records if integrated |
| Setup time | Same day | Onboarding and hardware setup, often multi-week |
Why dental / ortho practices trust it on the phone
HIPAA-aware handling by design — it collects only what's needed to book or route a call, and never discusses clinical details or diagnoses.
Positioned as after-hours and overflow coverage, not a replacement for your front desk — anything sensitive gets a warm handoff to your team.
No improvised answers on insurance or treatment questions. It captures the question and offers a callback rather than guessing.
Every call is logged with timestamp and reason for calling, so your team isn't reconstructing what a patient needed from a scribbled note.
Questions dental / ortho practices ask
Is it a robot?+
Yes — and the reason that matters is it's still answering at 1pm during lunch rush and at 7pm after you've locked up, which is exactly when a new-patient call is most likely to go to voicemail today. It says so if a patient asks. No pretending.
Patients expect to talk to our staff, not a bot.+
Most of the time they do, and they will — this covers the gaps, not the front desk. Lunch hour, after hours, the two lines already lit up with patients in the chair. It hands off anything that needs a real person to a real person; it's not trying to replace the team you already trust.
Can it handle insurance questions without giving out wrong information?+
It doesn't try to answer insurance or clinical questions — that's a deliberate limit, not a gap. It captures the question and books a callback from your team, because a wrong insurance answer is worse than no answer. Call the demo number and ask it a coverage question; listen to what it does instead of guessing.
Is this HIPAA-safe?+
It's built HIPAA-aware from the ground up: it collects the minimum needed to book or route the call — name, callback number, reason for calling in general terms — and it never discusses diagnoses, treatment plans, or clinical specifics on the phone. Nothing sensitive gets stored insecurely.
We already have Weave / a bundled system.+
Weave's a solid platform if you're already paying for the full suite — hardware, reminders, reviews. If you're a 1–3 chair practice, you're often paying $300–800+ a month for a bundle you use a fraction of, just to get the phone answered. This is a flat $199 for the phone-answering part, no hardware upsell. And it isn't a generic script — it's built on your practice's actual scheduling patterns, your typical new-patient questions, and every correction your team gives it, remembered daily.
What happens when it can't answer a question?+
It takes a message and offers a callback on your team's rules rather than guessing at anything clinical or financial. It's never the same miss twice — every correction folds back in daily, so it gets better at handling your practice's specific patients and questions over time.
$199/mo. Unlimited. No contract.
Flat. Unlimited calls. No hardware bundle, no reminders suite you didn't ask for — just the phone, answered.
Not ready to click anything? Text “DENTAL / ORTHO PRACTICES” to +1 (555) 010-0000 and it'll walk you through setup.