Notes on specialty-dental AI.
Written for practice owners and operators. No fluff, no SEO-bait, no AI hype. Just the things we'd tell you over coffee if we had time.
Introducing Run-Your-Office: take the repetitive work off your team for half what you spend today
Specialty dental practices spend ~$250K/yr on front-office payroll. PracticeIQ now handles the repetitive work — reception, billing, collections, case coordination — at a flat monthly fee that leaves most practices reallocating ~$100K/yr of staff time into growth work. 30-day parallel pilot, no contract, stop at day 30.
The ortho front-desk playbook: 8 plays that move case acceptance
Case-acceptance leaks happen between the consult and the booking. Eight specific plays that tighten the loop without adding staff.
Why specialty dental practices lose $8–15K a month to missed calls
Ortho, implant, and cosmetic practices lose more per missed call than any other dental segment. Here's the math and what to do about it.
Voice AI stacks for specialty dental: Vapi vs Retell vs Twilio
Technical founders and DSO IT teams ask this weekly. Here's the honest comparison of the three voice-AI platforms a dental vendor can build on in 2026.
Why we built PracticeIQ
We kept watching specialty practices churn revenue into voicemail. Nobody was building AI specifically for their workflows. Here's why we did.
HIPAA + AI voice receptionists: what actually matters
Most vendors wave the HIPAA flag. Here's what the safeguards actually look like in a modern AI voice stack, and what questions to ask.