The TechDental Podcast AI Agents Are Your New Team Members: Scaling Dentistry Without Hiring
Aug 12, 2025
44:46
AI-powered automation is reshaping patient experience and operational efficiency, offering dental practices new ways to grow without adding overhead.
In this episode of The TechDental Podcast, host and Founder of DentaCFO, Dr. Randeep Singh Gill speaks with Dr. Aalok Shukla, CEO and co-founder of Implement AI, about how clinics are using AI agents to reduce admin burden, boost revenue, and deliver more personalised patient care, at scale, transforming everything from call handling and patient reactivation to lead conversion, communication coaching, and digital treatment coordination.
What You’ll Learn:
- How to deploy AI call analysts to spot missed opportunities and boost revenue within days
- What an AI-powered “digital treatment coordinator” can do for your new patient journey
- Why reactivation, lead conversion, and case acceptance are ripe for automation
- How AI agents can coach dental teams on communication and follow-up
- What data dental practices already have and how to unlock their value
- The guardrails every AI system must include for safe, consistent performance
- Why AI can be more empathetic than humans and what that means for trust
- The mindset shift from “tool” to “team member” and how to scale with fewer people
About the Guest:
Dr. Aalok Shukla is the CEO and co-founder of Implement AI, a UK-based AI agency helping healthcare organisations deploy intelligent digital workers across operations, patient experience, and communications. Trained as a dentist and former owner of a private dental clinic in Putney, Dr. Shukla went on to co-found several pioneering digital health platforms, including Straight Teeth Direct and Instant Dentist. An early adopter of AI in healthcare, Dr. Shukla has helped organisations across dentistry, pharmacy, and financial services build and scale AI agent teams that reduce admin burden, unlock missed revenue, and deliver more personalised patient care at scale. He is also a mentor at HealthTech accelerator programmes and a thought leader on AI implementation, automation strategy, and digital transformation. At Implement AI, his mission is to give every business owner a superhuman workforce that works 24/7 without compromising empathy, compliance, or consistency. In this episode, Dr. Shukla offers a practical roadmap for integrating AI into daily operations, revealing how intelligent automation is redefining what’s possible for modern dental practices.
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In this episode of The TechDental Podcast, host and Founder of DentaCFO, Dr. Randeep Singh Gill speaks with Dr. Aalok Shukla, CEO and co-founder of Implement AI, about how clinics are using AI agents to reduce admin burden, boost revenue, and deliver more personalised patient care, at scale, transforming everything from call handling and patient reactivation to lead conversion, communication coaching, and digital treatment coordination.
What You’ll Learn:
- How to deploy AI call analysts to spot missed opportunities and boost revenue within days
- What an AI-powered “digital treatment coordinator” can do for your new patient journey
- Why reactivation, lead conversion, and case acceptance are ripe for automation
- How AI agents can coach dental teams on communication and follow-up
- What data dental practices already have and how to unlock their value
- The guardrails every AI system must include for safe, consistent performance
- Why AI can be more empathetic than humans and what that means for trust
- The mindset shift from “tool” to “team member” and how to scale with fewer people
About the Guest:
Dr. Aalok Shukla is the CEO and co-founder of Implement AI, a UK-based AI agency helping healthcare organisations deploy intelligent digital workers across operations, patient experience, and communications. Trained as a dentist and former owner of a private dental clinic in Putney, Dr. Shukla went on to co-found several pioneering digital health platforms, including Straight Teeth Direct and Instant Dentist. An early adopter of AI in healthcare, Dr. Shukla has helped organisations across dentistry, pharmacy, and financial services build and scale AI agent teams that reduce admin burden, unlock missed revenue, and deliver more personalised patient care at scale. He is also a mentor at HealthTech accelerator programmes and a thought leader on AI implementation, automation strategy, and digital transformation. At Implement AI, his mission is to give every business owner a superhuman workforce that works 24/7 without compromising empathy, compliance, or consistency. In this episode, Dr. Shukla offers a practical roadmap for integrating AI into daily operations, revealing how intelligent automation is redefining what’s possible for modern dental practices.
If you enjoyed this episode, make sure to subscribe, rate, and review it on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and YouTube Podcasts. Instructions on how to do this are here.