Automated Waitlist Optimization for Dental Practices

Every cancelled appointment
is $200 walking out the door.

FillingGaps detects cancellations in real time, matches open slots to waitlisted patients by preference, and fills chairs in minutes. Not hours. Not phone calls. Minutes.

$105K Lost per practice annually
to no-shows & cancellations
81% Of dentists say cancellations
prevent full schedules
3 min Average time to fill
a cancelled slot

Your front desk is losing a war
against empty chairs

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Manual Phone Tag

Staff spend 3+ hours daily calling patients one by one to fill cancellations. Most calls go to voicemail.

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Paper Waitlists

Spiral notebooks and spreadsheets go stale instantly. No preference matching. No priority ordering. No automation.

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Silent Revenue Drain

Each empty 45-minute slot is unrecoverable production. One missed appointment per day costs $20K-$70K per year.

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Staff Burnout

38% annual admin turnover in dental. Your best people quit because they're stuck making calls instead of serving patients.

The Cascading Fill Engine

When a patient cancels, FillingGaps launches an intelligent cascade. No human intervention required.

01

Cancellation Detected

Real-time sync with your PMS catches the open slot instantly. The engine queries your waitlist for patients whose day, time, and provider preferences match.

02

Smart Offer Sent

The top-priority patient gets an SMS or email with a one-tap reservation link. The slot is row-locked for 15 minutes. No double-booking. No race conditions.

03

Accept or Cascade

If accepted, the swap happens instantly and the patient's old future slot opens up, re-triggering the engine for someone else. If declined or expired, the next patient gets the offer.

04

Chair Filled

Your PMS is updated in real time. Staff sees the fill in the Practice Command Center. Revenue recovered. Zero phone calls made.

Anti-Bombardment

Max one proactive notification per patient per 24 hours. Your patients feel cared for, not spammed.

Concurrency-Safe

Row-level database locks on the specific slot. The rest of your schedule stays fully functional during the cascade.

Chain Reactions

Every accepted swap creates a new vacancy further out, automatically re-triggering the cascade for the next waitlisted patient.

Watch your schedule
heal itself

Your staff sees every active cascade in real time. Which patient is being offered which slot, how many minutes remain on the lock, and estimated revenue being recovered.

Live Cascade Feed

Real-time view of active offer windows, patient priority queues, and countdown timers

ROI Analytics

Total spots filled, chair hours recovered, and estimated revenue saved, calculated against your average appointment value

Patient Hub

Your patients get a branded portal showing their appointment and any exclusive early openings matching their preferences

Practice Command Center
ACTIVE
Slot: Tue 10:30 AM, Dr. Rivera
12:34 remaining
FILLED
Slot: Mon 2:00 PM, Dr. Chen
+$300
PENDING
Slot: Wed 9:00 AM, Hygienist B
Offer sent
14Spots Filled
10.5hChair Time Saved
$4,200Revenue Recovered

You only pay when chairs get filled

Start with zero risk. If FillingGaps fills zero slots, you owe zero dollars.

Days 1-30

Performance Pilot

$25 per successful fill

100% free to install. We track every automated reschedule. You only pay for results. Zero fills = zero cost.

Day 31+

SaaS Subscription

Starter
$149/mo

Up to 5 fills/month
$15/fill overage

Enterprise
$499/mo

Unlimited fills
Priority support

The dental industry loses $3.1 billion a year to empty chairs.

FillingGaps exists to make that number zero. One practice, one cancelled slot, one filled chair at a time.

Automated. Concurrency-safe. HIPAA-compliant. Built for dentistry.