AI voice agents for dental clinics

Yes. Outpero's AI voice agent handles dental clinics calls end to end — calling every implant, aligner and root-canal enquiry within 30 seconds and booking the first consultation. It works 24 hours a day in Hindi, Telugu, Tamil, Marathi, Kannada, Malayalam and English, switching to English the moment the caller does.

For dental clinics, an Outpero AI employee will call new enquiries from Meta and Google lead forms, your website and JustDial (via Zapier or webhook) within 30 seconds; capture the complaint — pain, missing tooth, alignment, cosmetic — and how urgent it is before booking; book the consultation into the clinic calendar against the right dentist's free chair time, live on the call; run recall campaigns for six-monthly scaling, pending RCT sittings and aligner check-ins. Every call is recorded, transcribed and summarised automatically.

Outpero has no setup fee and no monthly base fee — you pay only for connected talk time, from ₹5 per minute (1 credit = ₹1, credits never expire), plus ₹649/month for a dedicated calling number. A full-time telecaller doing the same job costs around ₹18,000 a month, works one shift and handles one call at a time. Prices exclude 18% GST.

Under 30 seconds from the enquiry landing. That matters here because dental enquiries arrive from Practo, Google Business Profile, JustDial and Meta ads for treatments that run from a few thousand rupees to well over a lakh — implants, aligners, root canals, smile makeovers. The patient compares three clinics the same evening, while the front desk is chairside or handling walk-ins. Recall is worse: six-monthly cleanings and pending second sittings of a root canal slip because nobody has time to work through the patient list.

Only the ranges you give it. Most clinics script a starting price or a range and add that the final cost depends on the dentist's examination and X-rays, which is also the honest answer. The agent does not diagnose or recommend a treatment; its job is to understand the complaint, capture urgency and book the chair. If a caller pushes for a firm quote, it books the consultation and notes the question for the dentist.

Calling someone who filled your enquiry form, or an existing patient due a recall, is a follow-up the patient asked for or expects — it is not cold solicitation. Cold-calling lists of strangers to sell treatment is a different matter, and the Dental Council of India's ethics regulations restrict dentists from soliciting patients. Keep campaigns to enquiries and your own patient records, and confirm your position with your advisor if in doubt.

A recording, full transcript and summary, plus the fields you asked for: chief complaint, treatment of interest, pain or urgency, preferred dentist, preferred time and whether a consultation was booked. All of it lands in the Outpero dashboard and can be posted to your webhook, so it can flow into your practice software or a Google Sheet. Front-desk staff see at a glance who is booked and who still needs a human callback.

Some will, and that is fine — the agent does not pretend to be the dentist. Most enquiry callers want two things quickly: whether the clinic handles their problem and when they can come in. The agent covers both in about a minute, in the caller's own mix of Hindi and English, and books the slot. Clinical questions are noted and passed to the dentist rather than guessed at, which is what patients expect anyway.