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Dental receptionist off sick again?

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Dental receptionist

A dental receptionist, a year

$37,230

Median full-time pay, United States, before employer costs, holiday, sick cover and recruitment

SiVoice Team plan, a year

$5,388

Every call answered, day and night, three lines, deposits, ring-backs

What you keep, a year

$31,842

Before the sick days, the holidays and the Monday-morning text

US Bureau of Labor Statistics, Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2024, receptionists and information clerks, median

Team plan $449 a month, the best plan· Solo from $199 · 7 days free, then monthly · cancel any time

Built on the engine behind ChatGPT's voice and billions of calls for

  • OpenAI
  • Spotify
  • Oracle
  • NVIDIA
  • Salesforce
  • Headspace
  • Coursera
  • Zocdoc
  • Axon
  • Skydio
  • Whatnot
  • Decagon
  • Retell
  • Cresta
  • micro1
  • Assort Health
  • Ultravox

The engine that answers for them answers for your receptionist.

Same lines, same clarity, same uptime. Whether you run one van or a hundred branches.

You get a brand-new phone number to share everywhere. Or link it to the number you already have. Your choice, one tap, in the dashboard.

Money-back guarantee

If your stress doesn't go down or your revenue doesn't go up in your first 30 days on a paid plan, tell us and we refund the month. No forms, no argument.

Does an AI receptionist really work? Check it yourself.

Talk to it in a minute

Paste your website below. In under a minute your receptionist is built from your own pages and you can call it in your browser, before you give us an email address.

Read every rule it follows

Nothing is hidden. In your dashboard every rule is written in plain English, and you can change any of them and hear the difference on the next call.

Watch the message land

Ring your own number after it's live. Seconds after you hang up, the summary, the caller's details and the full transcript are in your inbox, and the message is texted to your mobile.

A phone showing the receptionist ringing back after the line dropped

Try this on the demo call

Hang up on it. It rings you back.

Lose signal mid-call, or hang up by accident, and it rings you straight back and carries on where it was. No answer? It leaves a short message. Humans forget to ring back. This doesn't.

The voice

Press play. Would you know it wasn't a person?

It listens while it talks, lets callers interrupt, and answers in the time a person would. Callers can't tell the difference. Press play and hear for yourself.

What does hiring a dental receptionist really cost?

A patient in the chair, a phone ringing in reception

Your receptionist is checking someone in or taking a payment. The new-patient enquiry rings out, and they book with the practice down the road.

Good dental receptionists are rare and poached

One who can take payments, read the diary software and calm a nervous patient is worth a lot to every practice in town. The good ones are offered more somewhere else within the year.

A queue at the desk and on the phone

Checking a patient in, taking a card payment and booking the next visit all happen at the desk. The new patient ringing about an implant hears it ring out.

Toothache rings at 7am and 7pm

Pain does not wait for opening hours. The caller with a cracked tooth gets the answerphone, rings an emergency dentist instead, and does not come back for the crown.

What changes with an AI receptionist instead of hiring

New patient enquiries become bookings

It explains treatments and prices from your website, books the consultation into your diary, and takes a deposit for long appointments.

Implant and whitening enquiries become consultations

It explains the treatment and the from price from your website, books the consultation and texts a deposit link so the appointment is held. Team plan.

Hygienist gaps filled from the cancellations

A cancellation comes in, the next caller is offered the slot, and the diary stays full without anyone at the desk touching it.

Emergencies by your rule, day and night

A broken tooth, swelling or bleeding goes straight through to the duty dentist or gets your emergency number, and the practice gets the details by text.

It happens to be AI. That is why it never calls in sick, never needs cover, and answers several callers at once. You do not need to know anything about AI to use it: paste your website, pick a voice, connect a number.

Three calls a dental receptionist takes every week

What the caller says, what SiVoice does, and what lands with you.

Implant consultation with deposit

“I lost a molar last year and I want to know about implants. What do you charge?”

It gives the implant from price and the finance options from your site, explains that a consultation and scan come first, and offers Thursday at 2pm with the implant dentist. It books it and texts a secure link for the consultation deposit.

A consultation booked and paid for, with the caller's name and number in the diary note.

Cracked tooth at 7.15pm

“I bit on an olive stone and half my tooth has gone. It is not bleeding but it hurts when I breathe in.”

It asks whether there is swelling or bleeding, follows your emergency rule, and books the first emergency slot at 8.30am tomorrow. It explains the emergency fee as written and tells the caller what to bring.

An emergency slot filled before the practice opens, and the dentist knows what to expect.

Moving a hygienist appointment

“I am booked with the hygienist on Monday at 10 but I have been called into work. Have you got anything later in the week?”

It finds the booking by name and date of birth, cancels it, offers Wednesday at 4.30pm and Friday at 9am, and books the one they choose. It texts the new time.

The Monday slot is free for the next caller and nothing was written on a sticky note.

Hear it answer for your dental practice, right now.

Dental receptionist: the job description, and who does what

Copy the duties into your advert if you still want to hire. The ticks show what SiVoice takes on from day one.

DutySiVoice

Book new patient exams, check-ups, hygienist and treatment appointments

Yes

Explain treatments, prices and finance options from the practice's own information

Yes

Handle cancellations and reschedules and fill the gaps

Yes

Recognise emergencies, a broken tooth or swelling, and put them through

Yes

Process payments and update patient records at the desk

Takes deposits by text; desk payments and records stay with your team.

Partly

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Dental receptionist salary against an AI receptionist: the numbers

Median full-time pay from the national statistics office, before employer taxes, pension, holiday and sick cover, recruitment and training. Team is the best plan: three numbers, an AI receptionist per location, deposits on the call, ring-backs, several callers at once. Solo is the one-person option.

A receptionist, a yearA receptionist, a monthSiVoice Team plan, a month BestSiVoice Solo plan, a month
United Kingdom£24,678£2,057£354 · excl. tax£150
United StatesYou$37,230$3,103$449 · excl. tax$199
Deutschland€33,636€2,803€419 · excl. tax€179

Nothing against them. They're people, and people have lives. The phone doesn't.

The fee before the salary

A recruitment agency typically charges a percentage of the first year's salary, commonly 15 to 25 percent, or a daily margin on a temp.

The salary is the start

Add employer's National Insurance or payroll tax, pension, training, and the cost of covering the desk when they're away.

Off sick

UK workers lost an average of 4.4 days each to sickness in 2024, says the ONS. The phone does not get the memo.

On holiday

28 days a year in the UK, and you pay for every one of them. Who answers while they're on the beach?

At lunch

One o'clock sharp, which is when the phone is busiest.

Evenings and weekends

Not on the rota. That is when customers finally have a minute to ring.

Monday morning, the text

Can't make it today. The desk is empty and the week starts on the back foot.

Two calls at once

One person answers one call. The second one is voicemail, however good they are.

Hands in their notice

Just as they finally know the job. Back to the advert, the gap and the training.

SiVoice: none of the above. Every call answered, day and night, from $449 a month on the Team plan.

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Sickness figure: ONS, Sickness absence in the UK labour market, 2023 and 2024. Agency fees vary; check the agency's own terms.

Why not voicemail, an answering service or another receptionist?

Each of them answers part of the problem. Only one answers every call, knows your business and costs less than a day of a receptionist's time.

VoicemailAnswering serviceAnother receptionistSiVoice
Answers every call, day and night
Knows your services, prices and locations
Books into your diary and takes complete details
Follows your rules word for word, every call
Several callers at once, no engaged tone
Live the same day, nothing to install

Dental receptionist questions, answered

Updated November 2026

How much does a dental receptionist cost?

Full-time receptionists earn a median of about £24,678 a year in the UK and $37,230 in the US, before employer taxes, pension, holiday and sick cover, recruitment and training. SiVoice Solo is £150 or $199 a month for 1,000 call minutes, about 400 calls, with a phone number included.

Can it handle nervous or emergency callers?

Yes. It is told how your practice handles emergencies, so a broken tooth or swelling goes straight through to a person or gets the emergency number, while a nervous caller gets a calm, unhurried answer and a booking rather than 'ring back later'.

Is this instead of a receptionist, or as well as one?

Either. Some businesses use SiVoice instead of hiring, some use it to take the phone off a receptionist who is already run off their feet, and some use it to cover the gap while they recruit. It answers the phone; a person still greets whoever walks in.

How quickly can it start?

Paste your website and it is built in 30 seconds. You can talk to it in your browser straight away, before you give us an email address. Connecting a phone number takes a few more minutes, and it is answering the same day.

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