Schedule coordination for dental clinics

Make every seat productive.

Opal helps dental clinics run fuller, more productive schedules: finding empty or low-value seats, working the right patient lists, handling callbacks, and showing booked-care impact before the day slips away.

No new hire · No software to install · Built around your schedule rules
The gap

Schedules are managed reactively by overloaded front-office teams.

After 50+ dental clinic conversations, the pattern is consistent: software can show the empty seats, low-value appointments, and unbooked care, but the daily coordination still gets scattered across callbacks, provider rules, front desk capacity, and one-off messages.

01

The schedule has hidden waste

Empty seats, low-value placement, cancellations, and next-week holes are visible, but usually worked too late.

02

Patient demand sits in separate lists

Unscheduled treatment, recall, financing follow-up, benefits, and callbacks all point to possible booked care.

03

No one owns the daily loop

Front desk teams are answering calls, checking patients in, managing exceptions, and reacting to the day.

What Opal changes

A daily coordination loop for seat productivity.

Opal turns scattered follow-up into a managed operating rhythm, so each provider day is filled with the right care at the right time.

  • Find the highest-value schedule gaps
  • Match them to the right patient lists
  • Draft the outreach and handle callbacks
  • Route approvals through the office
  • Show the booked-care impact
The product

One coordination loop for the whole schedule.

Opal combines the coordinator scope, daily operating rhythm, and office approval workflow into one service that runs across your selected provider groups.

01 | Set the day

Find the gaps that matter

Review the schedule for openings, low-value placement, template mismatches, missing notes, and provider goal variance. Prioritize high-value seats, same-day gaps, and next-day openings.

02 | Work the lists

Move patients back onto the calendar

Work unscheduled treatment, recall, waitlists, cancellations, financing, remaining benefits, and callbacks. The goal is not more volume. It is the right care at the right time.

03 | Coordinate with the office

Keep every action visible

Draft patient follow-up, route clinical questions back to the provider, use your team channels for exceptions, and send a weekly scorecard to operating leaders.

Daily schedule reviewSame-day and next-day openingsUnscheduled treatmentInbound callbacksProvider goal varianceWeekly scorecards
Guardrails

Rules that protect your schedule and your patients.

An outside coordinator only works if it respects how each doctor runs. These are non-negotiable from day one.

Fill the earliest high-value openings first, then work same-day and next-day gaps.
Follow every provider's templates and appointment lengths.
Never move a doctor-approved exception.
Keep lower-value visits out of high-value windows.
Surgical and high-ticket cases: we propose, your office confirms.
No patient message goes out without your office's approval.
Clinical questions route straight back to the provider.
Every action stays visible in your channels.
  • HIPAA-minded from day one. Every vendor clears a signed-BAA review before it touches patient data.
  • Priced on results. Commercial terms tied to the booked care we help add and keep. No software fee during the pilot.
Built by
Product leaders from Google, Meta, and Butterfly Network.
Currently setting up pilots with growth-minded dental clinics across the US and UK.
How we'll know it worked

Measured in the numbers you already run on.

Booked care / day
The headline number
Next-12-week booked care
Scheduled treatment on the books
Case acceptance %
Trailing 3 months
Seat productivity
Empty seats filled, low-value seats improved
Unscheduled treatment booked
Recovered from the backlog
Visits / day
Guardrail: better schedule, not more volume
Start with a pilot

Make more of each provider day, under your rules.

A short pilot across two provider groups, priced on results. Fifteen minutes to see if it fits.

Book a 15-min call