Unlike a receptionist
It never gives a two-week notice.
No PTO. No bad Mondays. No two-week notice. No 30-day onboarding for the next hire. Train it once, and your practice stops paying the rotation tax forever.
Built by a dentist, for dentists
The front desk that never quits.
Every call. Every new patient. Every follow-up.
Built by a dentist who got tired of the hire-train-quit cycle at the front desk. tuulip is the AI receptionist that learns your practice once, answers every call, books the appointment, and never gives a two-week notice.
24/7 call answering
HIPAA-compliant
Trained once, never re-hired
Live Call · 02:14
Routing
Caller: “I cracked a tooth this morning — can someone see me today?”
tuulip: “Yes, Dr. Smith can see you at 2:15 PM. Booking now.”
+37%
Appointments booked
Connects with most dental practice management systems
- Dentrix
- Eaglesoft
- Open Dental
- Dentrix Ascend
- Curve Hero
- Denticon
- Carestream
- Practice-Web
What you're actually getting
Not software. A teammate.
Built by a dentist who got tired of rebuilding the front desk every nine months. Most practices have tried receptionists, answering services, call centers, and patient communication software. This isn't another one of those — it's the teammate none of them could replace.
Unlike an answering service
It books the appointment.
Doesn't take a message and leave your front desk a pile of callbacks on Monday. Confirms the procedure, checks the schedule, books the appointment, and sends the patient a confirmation text — on the same call.
Unlike a call center
It actually knows your practice.
Your procedures, your hours, your providers by name, your insurance participation, your recall cadence. Not a script in a call room reading off a screen.
Unlike new software
It's running in 10 days.
No six-month rollout. No retraining your front desk. No new dashboard for your team to learn. We configure it around how you already run your practice, and you're live the next week.
One AI teammate. Hired in days. Never quits.
The cost of the status quo
Your front office is the bottleneck.
You hire a front desk, train her, lose her, and start over. Meanwhile, calls are missed, recalls slip, and patients walk to the practice down the street. The problem isn't your team — it's that this model was never going to scale.
The Hire-Train-Quit Cycle
You hire a front desk. You spend 30 days training her on your PMS, your insurance rules, your scheduling templates. Eight months later, she gives a two-week notice. The next hire starts from zero — and your patients pay for the rotation.
20%+
annual turnover at the typical dental front desk
Missed Calls Walk Away
A patient cracks a tooth Sunday evening. They call you, then the next dentist on the list. By the time your voicemail gets checked Monday morning, that new patient is already in someone else's chair.
30%+
of after-hours calls go unanswered at the average dental practice
Your Tools Don't Talk
You're paying for your PMS, an answering service, a patient communication platform, and a review tool, and none of them share the same record. Recalls slip through the cracks. No-shows go un-followed-up. Revenue leaks you can't even see.
$12K–$30K+
annual cost of the typical front-office software stack for a growing practice
How it works
Up and running in days, not months.
No rip-and-replace. No six-month rollouts. Here's how tuulip goes from first conversation to answering your phones.
- 1
We Learn Your Practice
We sit with you and configure the AI to your actual operation: your procedures, your providers, your hours, your insurance participation, your recall cadence, and your scheduling rules. Not a template. Yours.
Built around how you already run your practice. - 2
AI Handles the Phones
Every inbound call is answered on the first ring: 2am, Saturday morning, holidays. The AI books the appointment, triages the patient, and confirms with them. It sounds like your best front desk person on their best day.
Nights, weekends, holidays, same answer rate. - 3
You Stay in Control
Every call, every booking, every patient interaction shows up on your dashboard in real time. Review, adjust, override, jump in whenever you want. The AI works for you, not the other way around.
Full transparency. Nothing happens in a black box.
Most practices are live within 10 days.
Capabilities
Everything your front office does. Nothing it drops.
One platform that runs your phones, your schedule, your patient communication, and your follow-ups, so your team can focus on the patients in the chair.
Inbound Call Handling
Every call answered on the first ring, 24/7/365. No hold music, no voicemail, no missed new patients. Handles dozens of calls at once without breaking a sweat.
Smart Scheduling
Books appointments directly into your PMS based on provider availability, procedure length, chair utilization, and your scheduling templates. No double-booking, no back-and-forth, no sticky notes.
Patient Triage & Routing
Routes urgent calls, new-patient inquiries, and hygiene recalls to the right workflow. Emergency toothache at 9pm? Booked. Same-day crown seat? Scheduled. Insurance question? Answered.
Follow-Up & Recall
Automated confirmations, day-before reminders, recall outreach, and post-visit follow-ups. Patients stay in the loop and leave reviews, and your team stays focused on care.
PMS Integration
Plugs into Dentrix, Eaglesoft, Open Dental, Dentrix Ascend, Curve Hero, Denticon, and more. We fit into what you already run. No rip-and-replace, no retraining.
Dashboard & Reporting
Every call, every booking, every dollar in one place. See answer rates, booked revenue, new-patient conversion, recall effectiveness: the whole practice in one view.
Don't see what you need? We build custom workflows for every practice, from intake scripts to insurance-verification logic to reporting dashboards.
Talk to usCost Comparison
Your current setup costs more than you think.
Add up what you're paying today across staff, software, and missed calls. Then see what it looks like when it all runs through one system.
Your current costs
Adjust the numbers to match your practice.
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e.g., Dentrix, Eaglesoft, Open Dental
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e.g., Weave, NexHealth, Solutionreach, review software
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Typical new-patient lifetime value in dental is $500–$2,500+
Your results
Here's the math.
Your current annual cost$121,000
Estimated with tuulip (Enterprise)$4,000 – $12,000 / year
Potential annual savings
$113,000
About 93% less than what you're spending today.
Every practice is different. Book a demo for a custom cost analysis built around your operation.
Book a DemoEstimates based on industry averages. Actual savings vary by practice size and configuration.
Book a Demo
See tuulip in action.
A 30-minute working session, not a pitch deck. We'll learn your practice and show you exactly how the AI would handle your calls.
No call centersNo middlemenNo hassle
- We learn your services, procedures, and insurance participation
- You see exactly how the AI handles real call scenarios
- We build a custom ROI projection for your practice
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Fill out the form and we'll reach out within 24 hours to lock in a time.
FAQ
Questions dental practices ask us.
Straight answers, no sales speak. Don't see your question? Call us or book a demo and we'll answer it live.
No. It sounds like a well-trained receptionist: natural cadence, real empathy, and a warm tone that matches how you want your practice to show up on the phone. Most patients don't realize they're talking to an AI, and the ones who do don't care because they got what they needed fast.