When you set up recall in most dental software, you’re handed a short menu: hygiene recall, reactivation, birthday, review request, maybe post-op and a treatment-plan nudge. Five to ten campaign templates, the same handful everywhere. It covers the obvious cases and quietly leaves the rest of your production on the table. The list of dental recall programs a practice actually runs in a year is far longer than that menu \u2014 and the gap between the ten you’re given and the twenty-eight you need is gap full of unfilled chairs and unrecovered production.<\/p>\n
ELVA ships 28 pre-built recall programs<\/strong>, each clinically and operationally grounded and ready on day one \u2014 a clinical team’s playbook, not a marketing gallery. They span five jobs.<\/p>\n The first three jobs, most serious tools attempt in some form. The last one is where the daylight is. Pre-built programs for post-operative follow-up<\/a>, pre-medication reminders (so a patient who needs antibiotic prophylaxis doesn’t get cancelled at the chair), pregnancy dental care triggered from medical history, orthodontic monitoring, denture and prosthetic care, and sleep-apnea appliance follow-up simply don’t exist as ready-made programs in the reminder tools. They require the system to understand clinical context, not just an appointment date \u2014 which is exactly what a recall built on practice intelligence can do and a timer can’t.<\/p>\n This is the difference between a recall menu assembled for marketing and one assembled by people who understand how a practice actually runs clinically. A birthday text is easy to template. A pre-medication reminder that prevents a cancelled appointment, or a post-op check that captures how a patient is doing and alerts your team, takes a system built for the job.<\/p>\n Ready on day one doesn’t mean rigid. Each of the 28 is fully customizable \u2014 the timing, the audience, the channels, the message \u2014 and every message the program sends is composed individually by the ELVA Brain<\/a> and quality-checked before it goes out, so a “standard” program never sounds standard to the patient receiving it. The 28 give you a serious starting playbook; your practice shapes each one to how it works.<\/p>\n Which programs matter most depends on where your schedule leaks \u2014 and you don’t have to pick by hand from a list. The next pieces cover how you target the exact patients<\/a> each program should reach and how the sequences adapt<\/a> as patients respond. See all 28 on the ELVA Recall<\/a> page, and how they fit the wider engine in reminders vs. a recall engine<\/a>.<\/p>\n 28 pre-built dental recall programs, each clinically and operationally grounded and ready on day one, spanning five jobs: preventive and routine care, schedule protection, revenue recovery, reactivation and loyalty, and clinical safety and specialty care. Most reminder tools ship five to ten campaign templates by comparison.<\/p>\n The clinical-safety and specialty programs: post-operative follow-up, pre-medication reminders, orthodontic monitoring, pregnancy dental care, denture and prosthetic care, and sleep-apnea appliance follow-up. These require understanding clinical context rather than just an appointment date, so timer-based reminder tools don’t pre-build them.<\/p>\n Fully customizable. Pre-built means ready on day one, not rigid \u2014 the timing, audience, channels, and messaging of each program can be shaped to how your practice runs, and every message is composed individually rather than pulled from a fixed template.<\/p>\n An appointment reminder is a timed nudge before a booked visit. A recall program is a complete patient-return motion for a specific situation \u2014 bringing lapsed patients back, recovering accepted treatment, filling cancellations, following up after surgery \u2014 with its own audience, sequence, and outcome goal.<\/p>\n That’s its purpose: it reminds a patient who needs antibiotic prophylaxis or a medication hold to take the right step before the visit, so the appointment isn’t cancelled at the chair. It’s one of the clinical-safety programs that prompt and remind patients \u2014 coordinating care, not providing clinical advice.<\/p>\n See all 28 programs.<\/strong> Explore ELVA Recall<\/a>, or how the programs reach the right patients via plain-language targeting<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Most dental software hands you five to ten recall templates and leaves the rest of your production on the table. 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The programs that prove the depth<\/h2>\n
Pre-built isn’t pre-baked<\/h2>\n
Frequently Asked Questions<\/h3>\n
How many recall programs does ELVA include?<\/h4>\n
What recall programs do most dental tools not include?<\/h4>\n
Are the 28 programs customizable or fixed?<\/h4>\n
What’s the difference between a recall program and an appointment reminder?<\/h4>\n
Can a pre-medication reminder really prevent cancellations?<\/h4>\n