Dental Practices & Pharmacy

30% of dental and pharmacy calls go unanswered.
None of yours have to.

Aila answers every patient call - at 9am and 9pm. Your AI Agent reduces no-shows, fills cancellations, and handles recalls automatically. Conversational Intelligence reveals what's driving your patient experience before it shows up in a Google review.

Aila receptionist
100%

of calls answered, 24/7

↓35%

No-show & cancellation rate

↑28%

New patient conversion rate

15hrs

admin time saved weekly

The challenge

The modern front desk is being asked to do too much.

Missed calls and lost patients

30% of dental practice calls go unanswered. 78% of patients book with the first practice that responds. Every missed call is a patient who registered elsewhere.

No-shows and late cancellations

An unfilled 60-minute appointment slot costs a private practice £150–£400. Without automated reminders and instant waitlist management, cancellations become dead time.

After-hours enquiry black hole

Patients call at 7pm, on weekends, after a painful evening. Voicemail means they've already searched for another practice before you open Monday morning.

Front desk overload and burnout

Your reception team is simultaneously answering phones, checking in patients, processing payments, and managing recalls. Something - usually the phone - gets dropped.

Private transition pressure

Winning and retaining private patients becomes existential. Every patient communication touchpoint now affects commercial survival.

No insight into patient experience

You know your CQC rating and your Google reviews. You don't know what's driving them — or which patient interactions are creating risk before a complaint is filed.

The Focus CX solution

An AI front desk that works the hours your patients do

Three solutions designed for the reality of running a dental practice - where patient relationships are everything, chair time is money, and your team should be focused on the person in front of them, not the phone.

Aila - AI receptionist
Use: new patient booking, recalls

Your reception desk, always open.

Aila answers every call - at 11am and 11pm - handling reservation enquiries, availability checks, and special requests with warmth and accuracy. When your front desk is full, Aila absorbs the overflow. When the hotel is closed, Aila keeps the booking pipeline open.
24/7 call answering - zero missed patient calls
Direct PMS integration - books, reschedules, confirms in real time
Dental emergency triage - routes urgent cases appropriately
Patient anxiety aware - warm, reassuring tone configured for dentistry
Multilingual - serves patients in their preferred language
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Conversational Intelligence
Use: patient experience trends, complaint signals, treatment acceptance, CQC evidence

Understand your patient experience before it shows up in a Google review.

Most practices learn about patient dissatisfaction from a 3-star review or a CQC complaint. Conversational Intelligence analyses 100% of interactions across every channel - surface which treatments generate the most questions, which patients are disengaging, and where front desk communication is creating friction.

Pre-complaint signals

Detect patient dissatisfaction in conversation before it becomes a formal complaint or negative review.

Treatment acceptance insight

Understand which treatments patients most often question or decline - and how communication can improve case acceptance.

CQC-ready audit trail

Every patient interaction logged and retrievable - supporting your CQC evidence requirements without additional manual documentation.

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Basic

$9

per user / month
Try it for free
For starter individuals and small teams that run on meetings.
What's included:
Basic summary
100 hours of transcription /month
Speaker identification
Basic in-call highlighting
Standard support
1TB of storage

Enterprise

Custom pricing
For large organizations with complex security and deployment needs.
Schedule a custom demo
Everything in Pro, plus:
Customized AI Model Training
Centralized billing and user management
Custom Integrations (100+ apps)
Single Sign-On (SSO)
Unlimited transcription minutes
Workspace Analytics Dashboard
How it works together

A complete patient comms loop

From first enquiry to post-stay review - three solutions covering every touchpoint in the guest journey. Working with your existing hotel & accommodation booking stack.

Built for your whole team

Practice owners & principal dentists

A fuller diary with fewer missed appointments, reduced dependence on front desk headcount, and a private patient communication experience that builds long-term loyalty.

Practice managers

Eliminate the voicemail backlog, reduce repetitive call volume, and get automated evidence for CQC inspections without additional documentation effort.

Dental groups & DSOs

Consistent patient communication standards across every site. Centralised insight into which practices are underperforming. Scalable infrastructure that grows with your portfolio.

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Dental Practices & Pharmacy outcomes

Results that transform a dental practice

Indicative outcomes from Focus CX dental practice clients in year one.

100%

of calls answered, 24/7

↓35%

No-show & cancellation rate

↑28%

New patient conversion rate

15hrs

admin time saved weekly

Based on average outcomes across Focus CX dental and healthcare clients in year one. Results vary by practice size, NHS/private mix, and existing systems.

SOLUTIONS

AI That Knows Your Customers

FAQs

Frequently asked questions

What dental practices & pharmacy teams typically ask us.

Will it work with our practice management system?
Will Aila sound natural and empathetic - not robotic - with anxious patients?
How does it handle dental emergencies out of hours?
How does the AI Agent reduce no-shows?
Is patient data secure and compliant with UK GDPR and CQC requirements?