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Dentally integration

An AI receptionist for Dentally practices in the UK.

UK dental practices running private and NHS lists side by side, where booking someone onto the wrong one is a conversation nobody wants at reception.

Writing to Dentally

Real time, on the call

patientMRN-4471902
provideralvarez-r
start2026-08-11T09:40
duration20 min
typefollow-up

Writing…

Encrypted in transit, audit-logged

Who runs Dentally

Dentally runs UK dental practices, many carrying both private and NHS lists with different availability, different fees and a different conversation on the phone.

The problem

What is actually breaking.

The things practices tell us cost them the most, in the order they raise them.

01

Two lists, one phone number

Which list a patient is on changes availability, fees and what you can offer them.

02

The fee question comes first

Most callers open with cost, and the answer depends on the list.

03

Emergency demand is unpredictable

Pain calls arrive without warning and cannot wait for the next routine opening.

04

Recall is known but not worked

Intervals differ between lists and the calls do not get made.

How it connects

Real time

Patient callRoutePrivateown availabilityNHSown availabilityEmergencyheld slot

Written while the patient is still on the line. Every write logged and reversible.

How 2care solves it

One platform, not a point fix.

Inbound answering, outbound outreach, write-back and escalation are the same agent - which is why the whole problem moves rather than one part of it.

The right list, every time

The agent establishes which list the patient is on and books against that list's availability and rules.

Fees answered on the call

What a visit costs under the relevant list, handled without deferring to reception.

Pain routed to held slots

Urgent presentations reach emergency capacity, and anything clinical escalates.

Recall per list

Outbound respects the different intervals each list carries.

Scope

What it touches in Dentally.

Three passes. Across several sites, the third is what keeps the boundary consistent.

Dentally2care
Operatory and provider
Practitioner availability in Dentally, per site, at the moment of the call.
Appointment type
Appointment reasons and their durations.
Recall status
Recall status, so the overdue list is your own.
Patient record
Patient records across sites, so nobody is duplicated.
Benefit detail
Plan and payment details already held.

A Dentally practice, in their words

The recall list used to be the thing we felt guilty about. Now it just gets done.
Providence Dental PracticeOperations Lead, Providence Dental Practice
62
hygiene recalls booked in month one
2
sites on one number
24/7
emergency triage cover
Read the Providence Dental Practice story

The difference

What changes on the Dentally phone.

Booking an NHS patient into private availability creates a conversation nobody wants to have at the desk.

How it runs today

With 2care on Dentally

Two lists, one phone number

Which list a patient is on changes availability, fees and what you can offer them

The agent establishes which list the patient is on and books against that list's availability and rules

The fee question comes first

Most callers open with cost, and the answer depends on the list

What a visit costs under the relevant list, handled without deferring to reception

Emergency demand is unpredictable

Pain calls arrive without warning and cannot wait for the next routine opening

Urgent presentations reach emergency capacity, and anything clinical escalates

Recall is known but not worked

Intervals differ between lists and the calls do not get made

Outbound respects the different intervals each list carries

Straight answers

What Dentally practices ask before connecting it.

We run several practices on one number. Does that work?

Yes, and it is the case this handles well. The site is resolved from what the caller says before any availability is offered, so they are not booked across town.

Can it work our recall list?

Yes, from Dentally itself, at the cadence you set, with the appointment booked during the call.

Does it handle NHS and private lists differently?

It books whatever Dentally defines for each, including different appointment reasons and durations, rather than treating them as interchangeable.

We are not granting broad write access to Dentally.

Nor should you. Sites, practitioners and appointment reasons as Dentally holds them. Clinical documentation sits outside the scope entirely.

At a glance

The Dentally connection, in the terms a review will ask about.

Dentally runs UK dental practices, many carrying both private and NHS lists with different availability, different fees and a different conversation on the phone.

Authorisation
Authorised through Dentally by a practice administratorAuthorised through Dentally by a practice administrator, scoped to the diary.
What it honours
Your own configurationSites, practitioners and appointment reasons as Dentally holds them.
When it writes
During the conversationWritten into Dentally during the call, across whichever site was chosen.
What changes
One number fronting several sites routes before it booksOne number fronting several sites routes before it books.
Reversibility
Every write is traceable and undoableEach one records the call that caused it.
Compliance
Agreement signed before any patient data movesRegional hosting and a DPA where you require them.

Go live

Weeks, not quarters.

Most practices on Dentally are live inside a few weeks of authorising the connection.

1

Authorise the connection

Your Dentally administrator approves API access. Nothing is installed, and nothing changes about how your team uses Dentally.

2

Map your rules

We map your providers, locations, appointment types, booking rules and escalation paths - the things that make your schedule yours.

3

Test, then go live

We run your real scenarios against a test environment with your team watching, fix what surfaces, then switch the line over and monitor.

See it work

A call, a booking, and a write-back into Dentally.

Recorded end to end. The system on screen is not yours, but the flow is the one described above.

Before you connect it

Questions about Dentally.

Yes. It establishes which list the patient is on and books against that list's availability, rules and fees.

Yes, what a visit costs under the relevant list is answered on the call.

People search it both ways. A Dentally answering service describes covering the phone. A Dentally integration describes what connects to what. Here they are one product: cover for the line that reads your diary and writes the booking straight into it.

Sites, practitioners and appointment reasons as Dentally holds them, confirmed while the caller is still speaking.

No. Callers are matched against what Dentally already holds before anything new is created.

Yes. Retained against the patient across whichever site they were booked into.

See 2care book into Dentally.

30 minutes, on your own call flows. No commitment.

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