--- title: "Missed Call Calculator | Top Dentistry" url: https://topdentistry.co/au/tools/missed-call-calculator description: "See how much revenue your dental practice loses to unanswered new-patient calls each month — and how to recover it. Use the free missed-call calculator today." lang: en-AU --- US: https://topdentistry.co/us/tools/missed-call-calculator UK: https://topdentistry.co/uk/tools/missed-call-calculator AU: https://topdentistry.co/au/tools/missed-call-calculator Tools: https://topdentistry.co/au/tools Insights: https://topdentistry.co/au/insights Sign in: https://topdentistry.co/auth/sign-in Top Dentistry: https://topdentistry.co/au Services: https://topdentistry.co/au/services SEO & GEO: https://topdentistry.co/au/services/dental-seo-geo Paid Ads: https://topdentistry.co/au/services/google-ads-management Results: https://topdentistry.co/au/results Pricing: https://topdentistry.co/au/pricing Claim listing: https://topdentistry.co/au/find-a-dentist#claim Book a demo: https://topdentistry.co/au/audit Growth for practices: https://topdentistry.co/au Find a Dentist free for patients: https://topdentistry.co/au/find-a-dentist Operations OS run your practice: https://topdentistry.co/au/platform Services: https://topdentistry.co/au/services SEO & GEO: https://topdentistry.co/au/services/dental-seo-geo Paid Ads: https://topdentistry.co/au/services/google-ads-management Results: https://topdentistry.co/au/results Pricing: https://topdentistry.co/au/pricing Tools: https://topdentistry.co/au/tools Insights: https://topdentistry.co/au/insights Sign in: https://topdentistry.co/auth/sign-in Free tool # What are missed calls _really_ costing you? Every unanswered new-patient call is a patient who dials the next practice. Move the sliders to see the revenue at risk, then get the plan to recover it. What are missed calls costing you? “Revenue at risk” is the value of new-patient calls that go unanswered each month — the ceiling you’re leaving on the table. Many callers who reach voicemail simply dial the next practice. Revenue at risk each month $57,000 ≈ $684,000/year · 38 unanswered new-patient calls/mo ## Why missed calls are the most expensive problem in the practice Marketing gets the phone to ring. What happens next decides whether that spend becomes a booked patient or a competitor’s new patient. The average practice misses a meaningful share of inbound calls — after hours, during lunch, and any time the front desk is already with a patient — and most callers who hit voicemail never call back. That’s revenue you already paid to generate, walking out the door. The fix isn’t hiring more front-desk staff. It’s making sure no call goes unanswered in the first place: an AI receptionist that answers after-hours and overflow calls, triages urgency, and texts the caller a booking link within a minute — so demand you worked to create actually turns into appointments. Questions ## Missed calls, _answered_ It depends on your call volume and the value of a new patient, but the math is stark: if 35% of your new-patient calls go unanswered and each new patient is worth about $1,200 in the first year, a practice taking 25 new-patient calls a week is putting roughly $45,000 a year at risk. Use the calculator above with your own numbers. Industry estimates commonly put unanswered calls at 20–35% once you count after-hours, lunch breaks, and times the front desk is with a patient. Many callers who reach voicemail do not leave a message — they dial the next practice in the search results. Capture every call. An AI receptionist answers after-hours and overflow calls, transcribes and triages the message, and sends the caller an instant text-back with a booking link — so a missed call becomes a booked patient instead of a lost one, and your team starts the day with a prioritized callback list. Yes. You see your revenue-at-risk number instantly with no sign-up. 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