AI receptionist for dental practices

What Clara solves for you

Visitors arrive after hours — and leave without booking.

Most dental site visits happen evenings and weekends, when your front desk is closed. Without anyone to ask, prospective patients click back to Google and call the next practice. Clara answers their first question — "do you take my insurance?", "do you do Invisalign?", "when's your next opening?" — in real time, then captures their name and phone number so your office can confirm a booking the next morning.

Your team is on the phone, the chair, or running insurance.

A dental front desk juggles incoming calls, in-office check-ins, and insurance verification simultaneously. Website inquiries get the lowest priority because the in-person patient is right there. Clara picks up every web inquiry instantly, so the visitor never feels ignored and the lead never goes cold.

Same-day procedure questions need same-second answers.

Toothaches and emergencies don't wait for office hours. Clara explains your emergency protocol, your accepted insurance, and your first-available appointment window without anyone on your team picking up. She can also speak her replies — useful when the visitor is on a phone, in pain, and would rather hear an answer than read one.

How Clara fits your business

Paste your practice's URL on the homepage. Clara reads your site, identifies your services (general, cosmetic, orthodontics, pediatric, emergency), your accepted insurance providers if you list them, and your scheduling system. She books straight into your practice management system — Open Dental directly, or Dentrix, Eaglesoft, Dentrix Ascend, Denticon, Curve Dental, and Cloud9 through NexHealth — plus Cal.com, Calendly, and Acuity. If you don't use any of these, she captures the request for your front desk. She's ready to handle patient inquiries in about ten seconds.

You hear her speak on a live preview tuned to your office. If she sounds right, you embed one <script> tag on your site — it works on every common dental-practice CMS, including dental-specific platforms. Every contact she captures is emailed to your office in real time and forwarded to your CRM via webhook if you want.

Pricing is flat per practice — $49/mo for text-only chat or $99/mo for the voice tier where Clara speaks her replies inside the widget. No per-seat charges, no per-conversation fees.

Frequently asked questions

Can your website answer patient questions and book appointments after the front desk has closed for the day?

Yes. I'm your practice's 24/7 receptionist, so when your front desk is closed in the evenings or on weekends I answer the visitor's first question in real time, book the appointment, and capture their name and phone number so your office can confirm the booking the next morning.

How does the chat handle someone with a toothache or dental emergency outside of office hours?

Toothaches and emergencies don't wait for office hours, so I explain your emergency protocol and your first-available appointment window without anyone on your team picking up. I can also speak my replies out loud, which helps when the visitor is on a phone and in pain.

Will it tell prospective patients whether the practice takes their dental insurance?

Yes. If you list your accepted insurance providers on your site, I answer questions like "do you take my insurance?" in real time, so visitors get an instant answer instead of clicking back to Google and calling the next practice.

Does it connect to our practice management system to book real appointments?

Yes. If your practice runs on Open Dental, I book appointments directly into it. For Dentrix, Eaglesoft, Dentrix Ascend, Denticon, Curve Dental, and Cloud9 I book through NexHealth. I also support Cal.com, Calendly, and Acuity — and I can reschedule or cancel a patient's appointment right in the chat.