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AI receptionist for dentists

An AI receptionist built for dental practices.

Leap answers every call to your practice, books and reschedules patients, and texts back the ones you miss. It learns your practice from your website, and it goes live in five minutes.

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The short answerUpdated June 27, 2026

Leap is an AI phone receptionist for dental practices. It answers new-patient, reschedule, insurance, and emergency calls in a natural voice, captures the details your front desk needs, and texts back anyone who hangs up. It keeps your existing number and goes live in about five minutes.

  • 5 min. Leap goes live in about five minutes: paste your practice website, check what it learned, forward your number.

  • 24/7. Leap answers nights, weekends, and lunch hours, when most reschedules and toothache calls actually come in.

  • 2+ calls. Leap answers two or more calls at once, so a second patient never hits a busy tone while you check someone in.

  • 94%. Leap handles routine front-desk calls on its own and pages a human only for what genuinely needs one.

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  • Every call. Every call leaves a recording, transcript, and summary in your inbox, so nothing about a patient gets lost.

  • $149/mo. A Leap receptionist costs a fraction of a live dental answering service, with no per-call surcharge games.

Why dental practices miss calls they can't afford to miss

A dental front desk is busiest exactly when the phone rings most. Someone is checking in, someone is mid-payment, the hygienist needs a chart, and three lines light up at once. The calls that fall through are not junk. They are a new patient shopping for a cleaning, an existing patient in pain, or a reschedule that quietly becomes a no-show.

Voicemail does not save them. Most callers who reach a dental voicemail simply hang up and call the next practice on the list. After hours, the problem is worse: the toothache at 9pm goes to your competitor's answering service, not yours.

  • New-patient calls

    Leap answers questions about cleanings, exams, and whether you take their insurance, then captures the request so you can confirm.

  • Reschedules and cancellations

    Leap takes the new time the patient wants and texts the details to your desk, turning a no-show into a kept slot.

  • Dental emergencies

    Leap recognizes pain, swelling, and trauma, follows your triage rules, and pages the on-call dentist when you say it should.

  • Insurance questions

    Leap answers what it knows from your knowledge base and routes the rest, instead of leaving the caller on hold.

What does an AI receptionist do for a dental office?

An AI receptionist answers your practice's phone in a natural voice and does the front-desk work a missed call would otherwise lose. Leap greets the caller as your practice, answers questions from a knowledge base built out of your own website, captures booking and reschedule requests, and sends every missed caller a text so the conversation keeps going.

It is not a phone tree and it is not voicemail. There are no menus to press and no hold music. The caller talks, Leap answers, and you get a clean summary of what happened and what to do next.

How Leap learns your practice

Leap builds its first knowledge base from your website and Google listing: your hours, services, providers, location, new-patient policies, and the insurances you list. You review it as a set of cards and fix anything in one tap.

When a patient asks something Leap does not know, it says so honestly, takes a callback, and files the question. You answer it once, and Leap knows it for next time. Your receptionist gets sharper every week without you writing a script.

Keep your number and stay in control

You keep your existing practice number. Calls forward to Leap on the rules you set: every call, after hours only, or only when your line is busy or unanswered. Turn it off whenever you want.

You decide which calls reach a human and when. A patient in real pain can be transferred or paged to the on-call dentist. Everything else gets handled and summarized, so your team walks in to a clean list instead of a full voicemail box.

How it works

  1. 01

    Paste your practice website.

    Leap reads your site and Google listing and builds a knowledge base of your hours, services, providers, and policies.

  2. 02

    Check what it learned.

    Every fact is a card. Fix a price, add an insurance you take, set your emergency triage rules in a tap.

  3. 03

    Forward your number and go live.

    Keep your current number or use a new one. The next patient call gets answered, booked, and summarized in your inbox.

Frequently asked questions

Can Leap book and reschedule dental appointments?

Leap captures the appointment or reschedule request, including the patient's name, number, reason, and the time they want, and texts it to your front desk. If your site has a booking link, it texts that to the patient too. Direct calendar writes are available once you connect a calendar.

Will Leap replace my front desk?

No. Leap is a backstop for the calls your team cannot get to, plus full coverage after hours. Your staff keeps handling the patients in front of them while Leap catches everyone else.

How does Leap handle a dental emergency call?

You set the triage rules. Leap listens for pain, swelling, bleeding, or trauma, gives the caller your guidance, and transfers or pages your on-call dentist for true emergencies. Routine calls never trigger a page.

Does Leap know which insurances we accept?

Leap pulls the insurances listed on your website into its knowledge base, and you can add or correct them in one tap. It answers what it knows and routes anything it is unsure about rather than guessing.

Can I use Leap only after hours?

Yes. Run Leap on every call, after hours only, or only on overflow and missed calls. You set it per day and per hour, and you can change it anytime.

Will it keep my existing practice phone number?

Yes. You keep your number and forward calls to Leap when you want it to answer. Calls are forwarded, never ported, so nothing about your line changes.

How long does setup take?

About five minutes. Paste your website, review the knowledge base Leap built, and forward your number. Most practices set it up on a phone between patients.

What does the dentist or office manager see after a call?

Every call leaves a recording, a full transcript, and a short summary with the follow-up needed, all searchable in your inbox. Nothing about a patient gets lost in a voicemail.

How much does an AI receptionist for a dental office cost?

Leap's founding rate is $149 a month and includes the first 100 calls answered, then $0.99 per additional call. There is no setup fee and no contract, versus the $150 to $400 a month a live dental answering service typically charges.

Does it sound like a robot?

No. Leap uses a natural voice that answers in one ring, with no menus and no hold music. Callers talk normally, and Leap answers in your practice's name.

Is it HIPAA-conscious about patient information?

Leap captures only what your front desk needs to follow up, and every call record stays in your account for you to review and manage. Reach out for details on data handling for your practice.

What happens when Leap doesn't know an answer?

It tells the caller honestly, takes their name and number, and files the question for you. You answer it once and Leap knows it next time, so coverage improves every week.

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