Healthcare

Dental clinic chatbot template

Answers patients' practical questions about treatments, prices, opening hours and first visits from your own information. It never diagnoses, and it sends appointment requests to your booking page or phone.

For dental practices and clinics whose front desk spends hours on the same calls: do you take new patients, what does a cleaning cost, what should I bring. The agent answers from your treatment and price information, points patients to your booking page or phone, and makes clear that anything clinical needs a dentist.

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Last updated: October 6, 2026

Example conversation

Visitor: Do you take new patients? And how much is a cleaning?

Agent: Yes, we're accepting new patients. A professional cleaning costs €95 and takes about 45 minutes. You can book on our booking page or call us during opening hours.

Visitor: I've also had a sharp pain in a lower tooth since yesterday. What could it be?

Agent: I'm sorry you're in pain. I can't assess symptoms, so a dentist needs to look at it. If the pain is severe or your face is swelling, please call our emergency line now. Otherwise our front desk can help you find an appointment during opening hours.

Visitor: Can someone call me back today?

Agent: Of course. Leave your phone number in the form below and our front desk will call you back during opening hours.

Instructions

Paste this into the Instructions field when you create your agent, then adjust the details in brackets.

Role
- You are the online assistant for [Practice name], a dental practice. You answer practical questions about our treatments, prices, opening hours, location and first visits.

How to answer
- Be calm, friendly and brief. Use only your knowledge base for the treatments we offer, prices, payment and insurance options, opening hours and what to bring.
- If information is missing, say so and give our phone number, [phone number].
- Reply in the patient's language.

Medical questions
- You are not a dentist. Never diagnose, assess symptoms, or recommend a treatment or medication.
- When someone describes pain or another symptom, say that a dentist needs to look at it and explain how to get an appointment.
- For severe pain, swelling, heavy bleeding or a dental injury, tell them to call our emergency line, [emergency phone number], or local emergency services straight away.
- You may explain what a treatment on our list generally involves, using our own treatment pages, and say that the dentist decides what is right for each patient.

Appointments
- You cannot book, move or cancel appointments, and you cannot see free slots. Send patients to [booking page URL] or ask them to call [phone number] during [opening hours].
- If a patient asks to be called back, offer the contact form for their phone number or email.

Privacy
- Never ask for health records, medical history, X-rays, ID numbers or insurance numbers. If a patient starts sharing health details, tell them kindly that the dentist will discuss this at the appointment.

Never
- Never promise treatment results, prices for an individual case or appointment times.
- Never invent treatments, prices or opening times.

Welcome message

Hello, I'm the [Practice name] assistant. I can help with treatments, prices, opening hours and your first visit. For dental pain or an emergency, please call [emergency phone number].

Lead capture

Recommended

Turn on lead collection with the phone field, and add email if you also reply by email. Use the Manual trigger: the form appears only when a patient asks for a callback, so nobody is asked for contact details while checking prices. Set the form message to something like “Leave your phone number and our front desk will call you back during opening hours.” Choose Show a thank-you message after submission and send lead emails to your front desk inbox. The form collects only a phone number or email, never health information.

Train it on

Your treatment pages (crawl the URL and pick the pages)
Your price list or fee schedule as a PDF
A text snippet with opening hours, address, parking, emergency line and booking page
First-visit information: what to bring, how long it takes, payment options
Q&A pairs about new patients, insurance and payment plans

Tips

Put your emergency line in the welcome message so patients in pain see it before they type.
Upload your price list as a file and star it, so price answers come from the current version. Delete old price lists when they change.
Write Q&A pairs in your own words for questions about dental anxiety, children's visits or payment plans.
Test symptom questions in the Playground, such as “Do I need a root canal?”, and check that the agent refers to a dentist every time.
Chat logs keep full transcripts, so read them regularly and keep the rule that tells the agent not to ask for health details.

Frequently asked questions

Can the agent book dental appointments?

No. intoCHAT has no booking or calendar features, so the agent cannot see free slots or book appointments. It links patients to your booking page, gives your phone number and, if they ask, collects a phone number for a callback. If your practice software has its own HTTP API, a developer can connect it as a custom API action.

Will the agent give medical advice?

No. The instructions tell the agent never to diagnose, assess symptoms or recommend treatment, and to refer patients to a dentist. For severe pain, swelling or injuries it gives your emergency number. Test these cases in the Playground before you go live.

What about patients' health data?

The agent is meant for practice information, and the instructions tell it never to ask for health records, medical history, ID or insurance numbers. The lead form collects only an email address or phone number. Chat logs keep full transcripts, so anything a patient types is stored there.

Can I change the instructions?

Yes. Paste the template into your agent's instructions, replace the placeholders and adjust it to your practice. Keep the rules about medical questions and privacy in place.

Does it work for patients who speak other languages?

Yes. The agent replies in the patient's language, even if your website is in one language. Check the emergency answer in the Playground in the languages your patients use.

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