Missed-call calculator

How much is your practice losing to missed calls?

Three questions, about thirty seconds. You get a monthly number and an annual number based on your own call volume, not a generic average.

You're losing about
$0
every month to missed calls
$0walking out the door per year

Here's the good news: it's completely fixable.

An AI receptionist answers every call 24/7 — books the appointment, quotes your pricing, and captures the lead — so this number goes to zero.

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Estimate based on your inputs and industry benchmarks (≈30% of missed calls are new patients). Your real number depends on your call volume and patient value.

How the math works

Four numbers, multiplied together. Nothing hidden.

  1. Monthly call volume. What actually rings your front desk.
  2. Miss rate. The share that goes unanswered. Published dental call studies put this between 20% and 35% during business hours alone, before nights and weekends.
  3. New-patient share. Roughly 30% of missed calls are people who have never been to your office.
  4. First-year value. What a new patient is worth over their first twelve months, not what one cleaning bills at.

Monthly loss = calls × miss rate × 30% × first-year value. Annual is that figure times twelve.

This is a planning estimate, not an audit. It is deliberately conservative: it counts first-year value only, and ignores the hygiene visits, restorative work, family members and referrals a retained patient brings over a decade. See the full breakdown, with sources.

Questions we get

Why does the default assume a 30% miss rate?

It sits in the middle of the 20% to 35% range that published dental call studies report for business hours. If your front desk catches most calls, pick the 15% option and the number drops accordingly.

Do people not just leave a voicemail?

Mostly they do not. Only about 14% of callers leave one. The rest call the next practice on their search results, which in a dense market is a two-minute drive away.

What actually fixes it?

An AI receptionist that answers every call around the clock, including two ringing at once, and books the appointment instead of taking a message. See pricing or call us at (385) 558-3539.