Your front desk can't be everywhere at once. Robot Half answers every call — appointment routing, after-hours emergencies, message-taking — 24/7 for $199/mo.
Set Up in 5 Minutes →Patients calling to schedule, reschedule, or cancel are greeted professionally and their request is captured and routed to your scheduling team immediately.
Knocked-out tooth? Severe pain? Lost crown? Robot Half recognizes dental emergencies and follows your triage protocol — alerting on-call staff or directing patients to emergency care.
Every call gets a structured message: caller name, number, reason for call, best callback time. Delivered to your team so nothing slips through.
Serve every patient in your community. Robot Half handles calls in English and Spanish out of the box, with additional languages available.
When your receptionists are with patients or on another line, Robot Half picks up the overflow — no hold music, no lost calls, no frustrated patients.
Tell us your practice name, hours, services, and emergency protocol. We generate your AI receptionist. You're live in under 5 minutes — no IT, no onboarding call.
Every dental practice needs phone coverage. Only one option is actually affordable.
| Option | Robot Half | Ruby Receptionists | Smith.ai | Temp Agency |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Monthly Cost | $199/mo flat | $300–500/mo | $200–600/mo | $3,500–5,000/mo |
| Hours | 24/7/365 | Business hours | Business hours | Business hours only |
| After-Hours Emergencies | ✓ Included | ✗ Add-on | ✗ Add-on | ✗ Not covered |
| Per-Call Fees | None | After 100 calls | $1.75–3.50/min | N/A |
| Setup Time | 5 minutes | 1–2 weeks | 1–2 weeks | Weeks to hire |
| Dental-Specific Training | ✓ Yes | Generic scripts | Generic scripts | Depends on hire |
Real dental practices. Real results.
"We were losing new patient calls every weekend. Robot Half picks up every single one now. Setup took less time than making a coffee."
"After-hours emergency calls used to go straight to voicemail. Now patients get triaged immediately and my on-call knows within minutes. It's changed how we handle nights and weekends."
Practice name, hours, services, location, and your emergency protocol. Takes 3 minutes.
Robot Half creates a custom AI trained on your dental practice — your greetings, your FAQs, your triage rules.
Set call forwarding to your Robot Half number. Overflow, after-hours, and unanswered calls route automatically.
Robot Half answers 24/7. Your team gets structured messages. Patients get helped immediately. That's it.
Yes. You define the emergency protocol — what counts as an emergency (severe pain, knocked-out tooth, abscess, lost crown) and what happens next (alert on-call staff by text, direct to emergency dental line, or both). Robot Half follows your rules precisely.
Both — your choice. Most practices use Robot Half for overflow (when the receptionist is busy) and after-hours coverage. Some smaller practices use it as their primary answering solution. You control which calls get routed to it via call forwarding settings.
Robot Half handles appointment routing and message-taking but does not store protected health information (PHI). Callers are not asked for clinical information — just name, contact, and reason for call. For practices with specific HIPAA data retention requirements, consult your compliance officer.
Robot Half detects the caller's language and responds accordingly. English and Spanish are included by default. If your practice serves a multilingual community, this is one of the highest-value features — patients who can't communicate in English often abandon calls entirely.
Start with a single emergency shift for $80 — covers one evening, weekend, or holiday. No contract, no monthly commitment. Most practices switch to the $199/mo unlimited plan after they see how many calls were being missed.
$199/mo flat. No per-call fees. No contracts. Set up in 5 minutes.