What happens to patient details?
Foreman handles appointments only: reminders, recall, reschedules and booking. No treatment details go in a text. Patient details are handled under your practice's own policies.
Foreman for dental practices
Your front desk is checking someone in. A new patient is on hold.
Monday, 8:10 AM. Three at the desk, the phone is lit up and a new patient hangs up.Foreman answers new-patient calls and texts in under a minute, fills the chair a no-show left, and works your overdue recall list. Your front desk keeps the patient in front of them.
Sound familiar?
If you run a dental practice, you know these.
The front desk is checking in a patient and verifying insurance while the phone goes to voicemail, and the caller books the practice down the road.
New-patient calls hit voicemail at lunch, after 5 and on weekends, and most callers do not leave a message.
A no-show or a late cancel leaves a chair empty and the hygienist standing there.
The overdue hygiene recall list is long and nobody has time to work it.
Treatment the doctor planned never got scheduled, and the patient forgot by the time the front desk could call.
Lakeside Dental, example
What a Monday morning looks like.
5 conversations Foreman handles for a dental practice like yours, in your voice, written into the system you run. Swipe through them.
Today 12:18 PM
Hi, do you take new patients? I am on Delta Dental PPO.
Yes, we welcome new patients, and the front desk will confirm your coverage before the visit. Mornings or afternoons work better for you?
Mornings, ideally this week
Thursday 8:40 AM with Dr. Patel for a new-patient visit, about an hour. Does that work?
Yes
Booked: Thursday 8:40 AM. Please bring your insurance card and photo ID. The office sends your forms to this number.
Delivered
Today 9:40 PM
A piece of my tooth broke off and it hurts
I am sorry. I can not give medical advice, but I can help you see someone fast. Our first emergency opening is tomorrow 7:30 AM. Want it, or should I have the doctor on call phone you now?
Tomorrow 7:30 is fine
Booked: tomorrow 7:30 AM. If it gets worse tonight, call the doctor on call line at the office number or go to an emergency room.
Delivered
Today 8:15 AM
Hi Luis, it is time to schedule your six-month visit at Lakeside Dental. Tuesday 8:00 AM or Wednesday 3:30 PM?
Wednesday
Booked: Wednesday 3:30 PM. We will text the day before. Reply C to cancel or reschedule.
Delivered
Today 8:45 AM
A 10:30 chair opened today at Lakeside Dental. Want it? Reply YES.
YES
It is yours: today 10:30 AM. The front desk will see you then.
Delivered
Today 10:00 AM
Hi Elena, Dr. Patel set aside time for the visit you talked about. Thursday 1:00 PM or Friday 9:00 AM?
Friday 9
Booked: Friday 9:00 AM. Reply C if you need to move it.
Delivered
Sent as iMessage. Blue bubbles from a real number, text message for Android. Names and numbers are examples.
The math
A week of missed new-patient calls, in patients.
Change these to your own numbers. This is arithmetic, not a promise of results.
Industry figure: $850 to $1,300 first-year value per new patient and 30% to 38% of calls missed in business hours, from one vendor-written Dental Economics piece, August 2026. Henry Schein One 2024 report: 4% no-show and 12% cancellation.
Your numbers
That is about a month in first-year value you did not book.
Calls a week x 52 / 12 x value x share. Defaults are industry figures you can overwrite.
Your objections
What dental practice owners ask first.
Will patients think it does not care?
Clinical questions and emergencies go to a human at once. The text tells them that.
Will my front desk feel replaced?
No. It takes the phone, the recall list and the reminders so the front desk can look at the patient in front of them.
Does it need to read our schedule?
Only the schedule and the appointment record, where your system allows it. It does not need clinical charts to do the job.
Do you reuse our data?
Your data and customer list are yours and are exported on exit. It is used only to deliver the service.
Works with what you run
Foreman sits in front of your systems. It does not replace them.
Dentrix Live
Eaglesoft Live
Open Dental Live
Denticon Live
Curve Dental Live
NexHealth Live
Weave Live- Dentrix Ascend Live
Google Business Live
Google Calendar Live- All 331 integrations
Live: we connect during setup and tell you what the connection covers. Logos belong to their owners and indicate integrations, not endorsement.
The Monday text
Six lines a week. That is the whole report.
Every Monday at 7:00 AM, one text, in dental practice terms. No dashboard to open.
Monday 7:00 AM, Lakeside Dental, example
- 1New-patient calls and texts answered: 38. Median reply: 27 seconds.
- 2New patients booked: 14, 6 of them after hours.
- 3Chairs refilled from cancellations: 7.
- 4Recall list: 52 texted, 19 booked.
- 5Needs you: 2 insurance questions, 1 emergency handed to the doctor.
- 6Reviews asked: 31. New reviews: 6.
Questions
Straight answers.
Does it read our practice management system?
Only the schedule and the appointment record, where the system allows it. Dentrix, Open Dental, Eaglesoft, NexHealth and Denticon are live connections, and we tell you what each one covers.
Can it work the recall list?
Yes. Recall by hygiene interval from the schedule, so the six-month list works itself.
Can it fill a cancelled chair?
Yes. A waitlist text goes out when a slot opens and the first YES gets it.
Who owns our patient list?
You do. Your data and customer list are yours and are exported on exit.
Is there a contract?
No. Per location per month, cancel with 30 days notice.
Pricing
Per location, per month. No contract.
- OperatorFrom $495. Answers every lead, follows up on every quote, works your list, sends the Monday text.
- Operator + GrowthFrom $995. Everything in Operator plus managed Meta and Google ads, reported as cost per booked job.
- CustomFrom $2,500. Multi-location groups, agencies, API and white label. Scoped on a call.