Dental Front Desk Leak Diagnostic

Score the handoffs that quietly cost booked appointments.

SideEye Labs

Use this with one generic workflow: missed calls, new-patient scheduling, treatment-plan follow-up, recall reactivation, no-show rescue, or owner visibility. Score what is visible today before buying another tool.

Do not share patient names, appointment records, health information, insurance details, payment data, credentials, clinical questions, diagnosis, treatment, or medical advice in the first teardown.
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Missed Calls

Score
  • Does every missed call get one visible owner during the same shift?
  • Is there a same-day callback target that staff can actually check?
  • Does a no-answer callback get a second touch or message?
  • Does the callback end with an appointment offer when appropriate?
  • Can the owner see unresolved missed calls without asking the desk?

New Patients

Score
  • Is the first appointment request captured in one place?
  • Does staff know which requests are waiting on the clinic vs waiting on the patient?
  • Are online booking, phone, email, and form requests reviewed together?
  • Is there a rule for how quickly new-patient requests get a response?
  • Are incomplete requests followed up with a clear next action?

Treatment Follow-Up

Score
  • Does every unscheduled treatment plan have a follow-up owner?
  • Are cost, timing, financing, or insurance questions routed to the right non-clinical owner?
  • Is there a weekly unscheduled-treatment list?
  • Can the team see why a plan is not booked yet?
  • Does follow-up stay active after the first no response?

Recall

Score
  • Is the overdue recall list segmented by priority or recency?
  • Are failed reminders and non-responders reviewed by a person?
  • Does recall outreach have a next action after the first attempt?
  • Are inactive patients reason-coded in a simple way?
  • Can the owner see recall backlog movement week to week?

No-Shows

Score
  • Is confirmation status visible before the appointment slot is at risk?
  • Does a no-show trigger a same-day rebooking attempt?
  • Is there a waitlist or fill process for opened chair time?
  • Are repeated no-show patterns visible without manual digging?
  • Does staff know who owns reactivation after a failed appointment?

Owner Visibility

Score
  • Can the owner see open callbacks, stale requests, unscheduled plans, and recall backlog in one view?
  • Are stale items reviewed daily or weekly with a named owner?
  • Is the handoff between phone, PMS, reminders, forms, and messages documented?
  • Do staff use the same statuses for common front-desk work?
  • Is there one front-desk metric that gets reviewed every week?

Scoring

0not visible
1manual and inconsistent
3tracked, but still checked by hand
5visible, owned, and reviewed

Priority fix

  1. Pick the lowest-scoring section.
  2. Name the owner, next action, and stale-item review point.
  3. Fix one handoff before changing PMS, reminder, phone, or form software.