9 Best AI Receptionists for Dental Offices of 2026

Dentina.ai is the most dental-specific product on this list, and its pricing page is one of the few in the niche that shows a price. Standard Inbound starts at $299 a month per location on annual billing, covers up to three providers, and includes unlimited calls and minutes, appointment scheduling and rescheduling, call recording, English and Spanish, up to six appointment types and one-way SMS confirmations. Premium at $399 adds web chat with scheduling, two-way SMS, warm transfer with an AI briefing, custom screening questions and up to 57 languages. Bookings write back to Dentrix, Dentrix Ascend, Open Dental, Eaglesoft, Curve and Denticon, and the scheduler checks provider restrictions, operatory constraints and family appointments before it confirms. Outbound recalls, confirmations and reactivations are a separate custom-priced add-on. The vendor says practices go live in about three days without changing phone systems. The cost is higher than general receptionists, and a demo is needed to start.

Upfirst is a general AI receptionist with a dedicated dental answering page, and it is the cheapest way on this list to stop sending patients to voicemail. Starter costs $24.95 a month on monthly billing for 30 calls, with $1.50 per extra call; Premium is $59.95 for 90 calls and Pro is $159.95 for 300. The receptionist answers around the clock, sends call summaries by text or email, records and transcribes calls, and books into Google Calendar, Outlook, Clio, Acuity, Calendly and Square. Waterfall transfers try one staff member after another until someone answers. The vendor quotes a dentist at The Flossery on how summaries and patient texts reach the team. The gaps matter for dental use: bookings go into a calendar rather than Dentrix or Open Dental, and Business Associate Agreements for HIPAA-regulated businesses are listed only on Enterprise, so practices handling patient details should confirm that plan first.

Smith.ai is a general receptionist service, not a dental product, but its free plan makes it the easiest way to try AI phone answering in a practice. Free includes 25 calls a month, then $3.00 per call, with 24/7 answering, recordings, transcripts, summaries, call routing, AI scheduling with Calendly and other tools, and analytics. Pro costs $150 a month for 75 calls at $2.00 per call and adds dedicated onboarding and live support, with discounts at 150 and 300 calls. The receptionist speaks English and Spanish, hands calls to staff with a warm transfer, and uses custom playbooks for different call types. Smith.ai also sells hybrid and human-first service, which helps if anxious patients or billing questions should reach a person. For dental use the gaps are the lack of a listed PMS integration and a per-call price that rises with volume.

Arini sells AI patient engagement only to dentistry, and its homepage is organized by practice size: 1 to 20, 20 to 100 and 100+ locations. Practices can start with inbound voice AI for missed and after-hours calls, add outbound reactivation campaigns for inactive patients, and turn on automated confirmations to cut no-shows, plus online scheduling. Every agent runs around the clock, connects to existing systems and can be deployed in days, according to the vendor. Watchtower tracks the performance of each agent, workflow and location, and larger groups can get Forward Deployed Engineers who build AI workflows with their operations team. Arini reports 1,000,000 booked appointments and publishes case studies from practices such as Wolfe Dental and Pearl Street Dental Partners. Pricing is not published, the site does not list which practice management systems it supports, and every start goes through a demo, which makes it harder for a single office to compare.

Goodcall charges for the number of different people its phone agent helps each month, not for minutes. Starter costs $79 a month for 100 unique customers, about 150 calls in the vendor's estimate, then 79 cents per extra customer. Growth is $129 for 500 and Scale is $299 for 2,000. A patient who calls back five times in a month counts once, and spam calls are not billed, which suits dental offices where insurance and scheduling calls run long. Each plan includes a local number or forwarding from your existing one, workers for booking, messages and FAQs, and a set number of external tools such as an API or MCP server. You build and change the agent by describing what you want in plain English. The homepage states HIPAA and SOC 2 compliance. There is no listed dental PMS integration, so direct booking into Dentrix or Open Dental would need a custom tool.

Rosie is a general small business answering service, and it gives a dental office plenty of minutes for little money. Professional costs $49 a month and includes 250 minutes, custom message taking for two scenarios, appointment links sent by text, spam detection and a website chat widget. Scale at $149 adds booking on your calendar, warm and live transfers and texting callers during the call; Growth at $299 adds 2,000 minutes and backup transfer paths. Setup reads your website and Google business profile, and you can add FAQs, pick from 10+ voices and set an after-hours greeting. Every call is handled in English and Spanish, and iOS and Android apps show summaries, transcripts and recordings. For dental work, the entry plan only sends links rather than booking, there is no PMS connection, and the pricing page does not mention HIPAA, so practices should ask before routing patient details through it.

Frontdesk packages the AI receptionist with the rest of a front office. Business-in-a-Box costs $99 a month, or $79 a month on annual billing, and includes 200 voice minutes, 100 website chatbot conversations, 400 text messages and a pool of 1,000 overage credits that can auto-reload. A built-in CRM stores each caller, and sequence automations can follow up on no-shows or reschedule appointments, which maps well to confirmation and recall work in a dental office. The vendor lists 20+ languages, setup in five minutes, Zapier and API access, and outbound calls that show your business number. Partner and Enterprise plans add volume pricing, custom integrations and white-glove onboarding. For dentists the main gap is that no dental practice management system integration is listed, so bookings live in Frontdesk or a connected calendar rather than in Dentrix or Open Dental.

Weave is a phone, texting, reminders and payments platform used by many dental offices, and its AI Receptionist plugs into that system. It answers calls and texts around the clock, answers FAQs, creates follow-up tasks and hands calls to staff with a summary when it cannot help. Every practice can let it capture appointment requests for staff to approve, while practices on a qualified dental PMS can let it book and reschedule appointments directly. Calls, texts and website chats appear in the same inbox as human conversations, with a view of calls answered and revenue generated. Weave says the product is HIPAA compliant. The page lists payment collection by phone, real-time language switching and unscheduled treatment follow-up as coming soon, and the product is sold through early access with 25% off for the rest of 2026. Weave plans start from $199 a month, but the AI Receptionist price is not published.

Abby Connect has run a human receptionist service for about 20 years and now sells AI answering on the same subscription. Plans are counted in Abby Minutes: Starter costs $164 a month for 50, Essential $329 for 100 and Professional $599 for 200, and minutes double when calls go to the AI receptionist. You decide which calls the AI handles and which go to a US-based person, and you can change the mix at any time. Setup starts with an onboarding call where the team captures your greeting and questions, and Abby audits AI responses over time. English and Spanish are included, and caller data is available in the AbbyGo app and portal or synced to CRMs and calendars. For dental offices, the human option helps with anxious patients and billing disputes, but the price per minute is high and the site lists no dental PMS integration.