AI Dental Practice Recall 2026: Dentrix, Weave & $80K Chairs
AI dental patient recall software fills the empty $80K chair: how Dentrix, Weave and AI recall systems plug dentistry's biggest profit leak in 2026.
Chapter 1: The $80,000 Chair Nobody Is Sitting In: Why Recall Is Dentistry's Biggest Profit Leak Walk into almost any general dental practice at 2:15 on a Tuesday afternoon and you will find it: an operatory with the lights off. The chair cost somewhere between $8,000 for a basic unit and $80,000 once you load in the delivery system, the intraoral camera, the sensor, the cabinetry, and the sliver of the CBCT that lives down the hall. It is fully depreciated on paper and fully idle in practice. Nobody is sitting in it. Nobody is scheduled to sit in it....