Front desk recall and treatment follow-up
Dental clinic workflow audit for recall, unscheduled treatment, and front desk admin
Help the front desk keep recall, hygiene reactivation, unscheduled treatment, cancellations, intake forms, and patient follow-up from becoming manual busywork.
Built by Duncan Anderson, an AI engineer and data scientist who builds practical automation around real operating workflows.
What usually breaks
Where dental clinics lose time or revenue
The first audit is deliberately narrow. We identify the repeatable workflow, the owner, the inputs, the status points, and the places where a small automation would actually survive daily use.
Overdue recall lists are pulled irregularly and worked inconsistently.
Unscheduled treatment plans do not have a clear follow-up owner or next-touch date.
Cancellations create holes that are filled manually under pressure.
Patient intake or insurance follow-up requires repeated staff chasing.
Workflow map
The audit follows the real work, not a generic AI checklist
The audit targets front desk admin and follow-up consistency; clinical judgment stays with the clinic.
Patient segment: overdue recall, unscheduled treatment, cancellation, incomplete intake, insurance/document follow-up.
Data source, status, last contact, next recommended touch, channel, and owner.
Message templates by patient context with clear staff approval rules.
Daily/weekly front desk queue for high-value follow-up work.
Automation candidates
Likely first builds
The right first build is usually small, specific, and close to revenue or deadline pressure.
Recall and unscheduled-treatment follow-up queue with next action and owner.
Patient-specific message drafts for staff review.
Cancellation gap list to help fill hygiene/production openings.
Incomplete intake and insurance follow-up reminders before appointment day.
Audit output
What you get back
The goal is a decision-ready plan: what to automate first, what to keep manual, and what data or tool connection is needed.
A front desk follow-up map by patient segment.
A recall/treatment queue structure with status and next action.
A patient messaging and approval workflow plan.
A practical automation candidate that fits the clinic's PMS and communication tools.
Request the audit
Send the workflow that is costing time, deals, or deadline confidence
Specifics help. Include the tools involved, how the work arrives, who owns it, where status gets lost, and what would count as a useful win.
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