International dental patients rarely say no. They stop replying — and unmanaged silence looks exactly like a lost case.
In most clinics follow-up quality depends on which coordinator happened to own the conversation and how busy that week was. PFI replaces that with a stage-aware queue: what the patient is waiting for, who owns it, when the next contact is due and whether it actually happened.
The same reminder cannot serve a missing X-ray and a postponed full-arch case.
Contacted once, never answered. Needs a short, channel-aware sequence before it is closed.
Blocked on information, not on decision. Needs a specific request, not a general nudge.
The clinic owes the patient an answer. Follow-up is internal, not external.
Plan complete but not yet delivered. The delay is entirely operational.
Commercial terms delivered; the decision clock has started and needs a scheduled contact.
Silence after a plan. The highest-value and most frequently abandoned state.
Actively comparing clinics. Needs answers to specific objections, not repetition.
Agreed but not committed. A short, clear payment path matters more than persuasion.
Booked in principle, unscheduled in practice. Needs calendar coordination.
A future date the patient chose. Must resurface automatically, not be remembered.
Stage one complete. The return visit needs a recall owner.
No activity for a defined period. Belongs in reactivation, not in the active queue.
Post-treatment checkpoints that protect both outcome and reputation.
Satisfied patients who have never been asked.
Every open case sits in exactly one primary stage, with optional secondary state.
Follow-up content changes with stage and context — information requests, objection handling, scheduling or recall.
One named owner per open case, so nothing depends on who remembers.
The clinic can see what share of open cases were actually contacted in their interval.
Cases with an outcome still undecided.
Open cases contacted within their target interval.
Cases past their next-contact date.
Inactive patients brought back into an active stage.
Patient-chosen dates resurfacing this month.
Value carried by undecided cases.
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Follow-up can be assisted, but it stays a coordinator-led operation. The system decides what is due and who owns it; your team decides what to say.
That is a clinic policy, not a PFI rule. PFI enforces whatever intervals you define and shows where they are not being met.
They move to an inactive state with a reactivation path, instead of disappearing into an old chat thread.
Yes. Post-treatment checkpoints and second-visit recalls use the same queue and the same ownership model.
Model follow-up coverage against your own volumes and treatment value.