Dental AI guide
An AI Vendor Just Pitched Your Practice — What to Ask Before You Say Yes
AI scribe, receptionist, recall-bot and marketing vendors are pitching dental practices every week. The demo always looks great. These are the seven questions that decide whether your practice can actually use it safely — and who's responsible when it gets something wrong.
Just because an AI feature exists doesn't mean your practice can safely use it. When a vendor pitches you, the demo answers 'does it work?' — but the questions that matter are 'where does our patient data go, can it act on its own, and who's liable when it's wrong?' Most practices never ask them. This guide is the seven-question script that protects the practice — and your registration — before you sign.
No patient data required. Use these guides for practice workflow education, not patient-specific advice.
What's inside
- 1. Where does our patient data go — and does it leave Australia?
- 2. Who can see it — and can you show me?
- 3. Is it read-only, or does it *act*?
- 4. What happens to our data if we leave?
- 5. Who's liable when it gets something wrong?
- 6. Is it — or does it act like — a medical device?
- 7. Can we try it without real patient data first?
- Green flags vs red flags
- The safest first AI is usually the one you control
- Before you sign — and before you switch on
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