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Build a recall and reactivation message library

Today

The overdue hygiene and unscheduled treatment lists are a few hundred names long. Whoever has a spare hour sends the same cheerful reminder text to all of them, and it lands the way a mass text lands.

With Claude

You have a small library of messages split by why the person actually lapsed, so the patient who walked after a big estimate hears something different from the patient who moved and forgot.

The prompt

Paste this into claude.ai and replace anything in brackets.

You are writing recall and reactivation messages for a dental practice. These are reusable templates, not messages to a named person, so use merge fields like {FirstName} instead of real patient details.

Our practice:
[practice name, city, the tone you want, and anything that makes you different, such as same day crowns, sedation options, evening hours, or an in-house membership plan]

Write messages for each of these situations:
1. Overdue hygiene, three to six months past due, otherwise a regular patient
2. Overdue hygiene, more than a year past due
3. Accepted treatment but never scheduled it
4. Had treatment presented, said the cost was the problem, never came back
5. New patient who came once and never returned

For each situation, give me:
- One SMS under 300 characters
- One short email with a subject line
- One voicemail script under twenty seconds, written to be read aloud

Rules: no stacked exclamation points, no manufactured urgency, and no offers or discounts I did not give you. Each message names one specific reason to come back and makes one clear ask. Include an opt out line on the SMS versions. Write at a seventh grade reading level, and leave a bracketed blank anywhere a date, price, or offer belongs.

What to skip in dental practices

  • Anything with protected health information in it. Do not paste patient names, dates of birth, chart numbers, radiographs, or exports from your practice management software into claude.ai on a Free, Pro, Max, or Team plan. Anthropic's Business Associate Agreement covers HIPAA-ready services such as Claude Enterprise with HIPAA compliance activated by the Primary Owner, and the first-party API, and those consumer plans sit outside that coverage. Work from de-identified summaries and templates until a signed BAA is actually in place.
  • Clinical diagnosis and treatment decisions. Claude is not a medical device and is not cleared for diagnosis. Do not ask it to read a radiograph, stage periodontal disease, choose between restorative options, or decide whether a tooth is restorable. The dentist diagnoses and the dentist owns the plan. Claude only helps explain a plan a clinician already made.
  • Sending anything to a patient or a carrier unread. Post-op instructions, appeal narratives, and treatment explanations all carry professional liability, and a draft that reads well can still be wrong. A licensed clinician approves every word before it leaves the office.

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Before you try it

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