AI employee 01
The Reception Agent
Answers every enquiry on web, chat and email, plus any voice, social or messaging channel scoped into your build, books and reschedules, and triages routine, cosmetic, and urgent enquiries to the right pathway.
Healthcare · Dental Practices
Dental Practices: every enquiry answered, qualified, and booked.
Patients want a calm, fast answer, and reception is already stretched. Your AI receptionist triages, books, and recalls day and night, taking the pressure off the desk without adding headcount.
Who you are dealing with
7 Minds Systems is chaired by Ali Reza Eta, and we run our own group companies on the system we sell.
How we handle your data is written into your build contract, and set out in full on the security page.
A premium website and a managed AI workforce for dental practices, answering every enquiry at any hour and taking it through qualification to a booked slot in your calendar.
For dental practices, an Autonomous Digital Branch pairs a premium website with a managed AI workforce that answers every enquiry at any hour and takes it through qualification to a booked slot in your calendar. An AI employee differs from a chatbot in one way that matters: it owns a defined job, qualifies and books end to end, then hands a briefed enquiry to a human.
What the branch does for dental practices
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Triage with composure
Routine, cosmetic, and urgent enquiries are understood and routed to the right clinician or pathway.
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Fill gaps and recall on time
Cancellations are backfilled and patients are recalled on schedule, so the diary stays full.
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Reassure at any hour
A professional, steady first response at 2am exactly as at 2pm, with no message left waiting.
What the status quo costs
The quiet leaks every dental practice learns to live with.
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Hygiene recall slippage drains revenue, as nurses make recall calls between patients and miss part of the list each quarter.
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Did-not-attend rates run high enough to leave chairs empty (a UK NHS dental service recorded a 14.5% DNA rate; Journal of Dentistry, 2025), and new-patient enquiries that land out of hours go to whoever picks up first.
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An NHS and private mix means recalls, reminders, and consent confirmations must be tracked and evidenced across two very different patient flows.
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Reception cannot prove that every recall and reminder was delivered, which makes the principal's governance harder.
The workforce we build for dental practices
Named AI employees, each owning one job and doing it relentlessly.
Not a single chatbot. A briefed team, wired into your calendar and the systems you already run, handling the front of house your practice could never staff at all hours.
Your branch, live
A briefed team for dental practices
4 AI employees, one front of house, no closing time.
Each role beside this owns a single job and runs it day and night, wired into your calendar and the systems you already run. Every regulated step routes to a human for sign-off.
- The Reception AgentOn duty
- The Recall CoordinatorBriefed
- No-show backfill and remindersBriefed
- The Review ManagerBriefed
The Reception Agent is working an enquiry right now
AI employee 02
The Recall Coordinator
Runs hygiene recall sequences across SMS and email for both NHS and private lists, tracks overdue patients, and books them directly.
AI employee 03
No-show backfill and reminders
Sends staged reminders and instantly offers cancelled slots to the waiting list, so gaps in the diary close themselves.
AI employee 04
The Review Manager
Invites satisfied patients to review at the right moment and routes anything negative to a human first.
How it works
Live in weeks, then run for you.
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We map your enquiries
On one call we map where dental practices enquiries arrive, where they leak, and what each lost one is worth. You leave with a plan and a number.
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We build the site and the workforce
A premium site signed off before any code, then the AI employees wired into your calendar and the systems you already run, with every regulated step approved by a human.
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We launch it and keep it sharp
It goes live answering, qualifying, and booking. Then we monitor, report, and improve it, so the branch keeps getting better without you lifting a finger.
What it returns
The numbers a branch like this moves.
Recovered
Recall revenue that leaks from the list each quarter
Fewer
Out-of-hours enquiries left waiting for a callback
More
New-patient registrations no longer lost to rivals
The leak behind these figures is documented: a UK NHS dental service recorded a 14.5% did-not-attend rate (Journal of Dentistry, 2025). Every slot the reminders and waiting-list backfill recover is chair time the practice has already paid for.
We have written up the mechanics behind these numbers: read how to cut no-shows without making clients pay upfront and what an unanswered enquiry actually costs.
Straight answers
What dental practices ask before they commit.
How is special-category dental patient data handled by an AI receptionist?
“Patient data is special-category, we cannot just feed it into an AI.”
The agent works in the booking and recall layer and never opens a patient's chart. What it does hold, and for how long, is written out in the data-protection assessment supplied with every dental proposal, so your information governance lead has a document to file.
Can a dental principal approve every recall and reminder message before it sends?
“The principal will not sign off without seeing exactly what the patient receives.”
You get live sample messages and a full five-message recall sequence the principal can edit before anything goes live.
Does an AI receptionist work with niche dental practice management software?
“Our practice software is niche and nothing integrates with it.”
The scoping call checks your system directly, and where there is no clean integration we name the manual handoff and the exact time cost up front.
Built to the standard
Built around UK dental regulation by default (GDC Standards including advertising rule 1.3, CQC registration, UK GDPR and Caldicott principles, GDC numbers per clinician), with US state board, RCDSO, and AHPRA equivalents on request.
The agent stays inside scripts you approve, every regulated workflow is signed off by a human before it goes live, and we keep an evidence trail for inspection.
The GDC has published research on AI in dentistry and no standard that names it, so the standards written for people are the ones that bind. Which GDC standards apply to a system that speaks to patients works through Principle Two on communication and Principle Four on records, where a recorded call can become part of the patient's file. Whether a recorded call needs consent under UK GDPR covers the data-protection half of the same decision.
The maths
Priced against what it saves, not the hours it takes.
Builds start from £3,500 with a managed AI workforce retainer, shown in your local currency. A standalone AI employee runs about £3,000 to set up plus £700 a month. The ROI calculator puts the recovered enquiries against that cost on your own numbers, so you see the payback before you commit.
The scope and the number are agreed in writing before work starts. The call is thirty minutes, no pitch.
From
£3,500
One-off build for dental practices. Workforce managed monthly thereafter. Use the calculator to see the payback on your own numbers.
Questions
What dental practices ask us.
Yes. It tracks recalls, reminders, and bookings separately for NHS and private patients, so each flow is handled correctly and evidenced.
It tracks the overdue list, sends multi-channel reminders on schedule, and books patients directly, so recall revenue stops leaking quarter on quarter.
It sends staged reminders and offers cancelled slots straight to the waiting list, so gaps close without reception lifting a finger.
Workflows respect GDC and CQC requirements and UK data law, the agent stays inside approved scripts, and clinical decisions stay with clinicians.
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Book a strategy call
Thirty minutes on a branch for dental practices.
We map where dental practices enquiries arrive, the workforce that closes the gap, and the return it should make, then tell you exactly what we would build and what it costs. No pitch deck.
Know the scope and the number before you start.
The build is scoped and priced in writing before it begins, with the exclusions named, and the AI workforce is built and trained on your services and voice before it answers anyone. You commit to a defined piece of work, not to a promise.
Book a thirty-minute call
Pick a time straight from the diary. If you would rather write first, email us and a person replies, usually the same working day.