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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.

Apr 16, 2026·7 min read·Christian Garcia

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.

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Apr 16, 2026·9 min read·Christian Garcia

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.

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Apr 15, 2026·6 min read·Christian Garcia

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.

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Apr 14, 2026·8 min read·Ben Shah

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.

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Apr 14, 2026·5 min read·Christian Garcia

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.

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Apr 13, 2026·7 min read·Ben Shah

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.

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