🦷 Built for dental & healthcare practices

Your busiest receptionist.
Never off the clock.

RingDesk handles 300–1,200 calls per month for dental practices — appointment booking, NHS vs private queries, emergency triage and FAQs — so your reception team can focus on patients in the chair.

Works with your existing practice number
Dentally, SOE & Exact integration
Emergency triage always to a human
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Live call — Riverside Dental Practice
RingDesk Practice Reception AI
Live
RD
Good morning, Riverside Dental Practice — I'm the practice's virtual receptionist. How can I help you today?
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Hi, I need to book in for a check-up and clean please.
RD
Of course — are you an existing patient with us, or would this be your first appointment?
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I'm registered, yes. My name's James Fletcher.
RD
Great, James. Our next available slot for a routine check-up is Tuesday the 27th at 10:15am with Dr. Patel — does that work for you?
1,200
calls per month in a busy dental practice — among the highest of any SMB
£35,000
average annual cost of a full-time dental receptionist
65%
of calls are routine appointments a well-briefed AI can handle
8am
when call volume peaks — before your reception team is ready
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Call our demo dental practice — right now

Call Riverside Dental Practice and experience RingDesk exactly as your patients would. Book an appointment, ask about NHS vs private, enquire about pricing.

📞 01473 974675

Answered 24/7 · Standard UK call rates · Riverside Dental is a fictional demo practice

What it handles

Every patient call,
handled professionally

From the 8am appointment rush to after-hours enquiries — RingDesk covers every common reason a patient calls your practice.

📅 Appointment calls (your highest volume)
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Appointment booking

Checks the next available slots for the requested treatment type, confirms name, date of birth, and contact number. Creates the appointment in your practice management system.

Booked in practice system
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Cancellations & reschedules

Handles cancellations gracefully, offers the next available slot to rebook immediately, and frees up the time in your diary.

Diary updated automatically
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New patient registration

Walks new patients through the registration process — forms, medical history questionnaire, and first appointment booking.

Fully handled + record created
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Repeat prescriptions

Takes the patient's name, medication, and GP details, and ensures a clinician calls back to authorise.

Callback arranged with clinician
💷 Pricing & treatment enquiries
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NHS vs private

Explains clearly which treatments you offer under NHS Band 1/2/3, and what the equivalent private cost would be. Never gives clinical advice.

Fully answered from FAQ
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Treatment pricing

Answers questions about check-ups, hygienist appointments, teeth whitening, Invisalign, implants — from your configured price list.

Answered from price list
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Finance options

Explains any payment plan or spread-payment options your practice offers.

Fully answered

Waiting list

Adds patients to the waiting list for a specific treatment and explains what happens next.

Added to waiting list
🔴 Clinical escalation (always to a human)
🚨

Dental emergency

Any patient reporting acute pain, a broken tooth, or a lost crown is immediately transferred to your emergency line or on-call clinician.

Always transferred immediately
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Post-procedure concerns

Patients calling about swelling, bleeding, or pain after a recent procedure are transferred to a clinician — not managed by AI.

Always escalated to clinician
⚕️

Clinical advice

The agent never provides clinical opinion. Any question requiring professional judgement is escalated immediately.

Always escalated to clinician
Practice management integrations

Connects to your practice
management system

RingDesk integrates directly with the UK's leading dental practice management platforms, so appointments flow straight into your diary.

Software of Excellence (SOE)
Market leader

SOE is the UK's most widely used dental practice management system, with over 6,000 practices. RingDesk integrates directly with SOE to book appointments, check availability, and log patient enquiries.

  • Real-time appointment availability
  • New appointment created with patient record
  • Cancellations reflected immediately in SOE diary
  • Works with both R4+ and Exact platforms
Exact (Software of Excellence)
Enterprise practices

Exact is SOE's enterprise platform for larger group practices and dental corporates. Full two-way integration enables appointment booking, patient lookup, and diary management at scale.

  • Booking across multiple surgeries and dentists
  • Patient recalls triggered after appointments
  • Group practice multi-site support
  • Detailed reporting for practice managers
Carestream Dental (CS R4+)
Long-established

Carestream R4+ is widely used in the UK for both NHS and private practices. RingDesk connects via Carestream's scheduling module to create and manage appointments.

  • Appointment creation in the R4 diary
  • NHS and private appointment type selection
  • Patient demographics lookup
  • Recall list management
Iplato (PatientConnect)
Text reminders

Iplato's PatientConnect is the UK's leading patient communication platform, used by thousands of dental practices for appointment reminders and recalls. RingDesk triggers confirmation messages automatically after every booked call.

  • SMS confirmation sent immediately after booking
  • Recall prompts triggered from call data
  • Two-way messaging for appointment changes
  • NHS and private reminder workflows
Standalone / manual
No integration needed

No practice management system integration? No problem. RingDesk captures all appointment requests, sends a detailed email and text to your practice manager, and keeps a full transcript in your dashboard.

  • Full call details emailed to practice
  • Transcript stored in RingDesk dashboard
  • Patient contact details captured
  • Works from day one, no setup required

Works alongside your NHS appointment booking

RingDesk handles routine enquiries and captures details; your clinical team make the scheduling decisions that need professional judgement.

NHS & private aware Never gives clinical advice Full audit trail UK GDPR compliant
The business case

The case for RingDesk
is simple

Your reception team costs £25,000–£35,000 a year. They spend a significant portion of each day answering calls that could be handled automatically. RingDesk costs £99/month.

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Cost

RingDesk handles the majority of routine calls at £99/month — a 97% reduction in the cost of managing those calls versus a full-time receptionist.

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Clinical safety

The agent never gives clinical advice. Any question requiring professional judgement is escalated immediately to a qualified member of your team.

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Full visibility

Every call transcribed and logged. Your practice manager can review any interaction, see patterns in patient enquiries, and demonstrate consistent call handling.

Covers the peak

Call volume peaks at 8am — before your reception team is fully ready. RingDesk answers every call from 7am so no patient is left holding.

Riverside Dental Practice — Today
Live
Appointment booked — James Fletcher, Tue 27th
Created in Dentally
NHS pricing query
Answered from FAQ
Cancellation — Mrs Ahmed, Thu 29th
Rescheduled to Fri 30th
New patient registration
Details captured, callback arranged
Emergency — tooth pain
Transferred to on-call immediately
Getting started

Live in an afternoon — no IT project required

No hardware. No number change. No disruption to your existing telecoms. Your practice number stays exactly where it is.

1

Forward your practice number

Set conditional call forwarding so RingDesk answers when your line is busy or unanswered. Your number stays the same.

2

Configure your practice agent

We load your treatment list, pricing, clinician schedules, NHS/private split, and escalation rules. The agent sounds like a knowledgeable member of your reception team.

3

Every patient call handled professionally

Appointments booked, pricing explained, emergencies escalated — immediately and consistently.

Pricing for dental practices

Pricing for dental practices

Most practices on the Standard or Pro plan. Start free for 14 days.

Pay As You Go
30p/min

No monthly fee. Pay for the minutes you use - ideal for low-volume or seasonal businesses.

  • Billed per second, 30s minimum
  • 1 venue, 1 number
  • All industry templates
  • Call transcripts
  • Smart call transfer
  • Email support
Start free trial
Starter
£49/mo

Simple monthly allowance for small businesses with regular, predictable call volumes.

  • 300 minutes per month
  • 1 venue, 1 number
  • All industry templates
  • Call transcripts
  • Smart call transfer
  • Email support
Start free trial
Pro
£199/mo

High-volume or multi-site businesses that need capacity, control, and dedicated support.

  • 1,800 minutes per month
  • Multiple locations & numbers
  • All industry templates
  • Call transcripts
  • Advanced analytics
  • Dedicated onboarding & SLA support
Start free trial

All plans include a 14-day free trial. Prices shown ex-VAT. View full pricing →

Free trial for dental practices

Give your reception team
time back

Handle the routine calls automatically. Free your team for the patients already in the practice.

Or call our demo practice right now to hear exactly how it sounds.

Your practice number unchanged
Live in under an hour
Dentally, SOE & Exact integration
Emergency calls always to a human