Built by a dentist.
For dentists.

Every dentist has a moment that changes how they see their practice. For Dr. Kassam, it was a Sunday night.

A patient in pain called after hours. Voicemail. They called the next dentist on Google. By Monday morning, she'd lost a patient she'd never even spoken to — not because of her clinical skills, but because nobody picked up the phone.

She looked around. Every AI receptionist on the market promised the world. But none of them actually wrote back to Dentrix. They were chatbots wearing scrubs — taking messages instead of booking appointments, leaving her team to re-enter everything by hand. The ones that came close cost more than she paid her actual front desk staff.

So she did what any dentist who's also a builder does. She built her own.

Alora started as a side project at Two Aces Dentistry. Dr. Kassam trained it on real calls, real patient conversations, real dental scenarios. Crown prep vs. prophy. PPO vs. HMO. The difference between "my tooth hurts when I chew" and "my tooth hurts all the time." Things you only learn in the chair.

When it started booking appointments directly in Dentrix — actually writing to the calendar, not just emailing a message — she knew it was different. When her front desk stopped spending Monday mornings returning weekend voicemails, she knew it worked.

Before dentistry, Dr. Kassam earned her MS in Biology at UT San Antonio. She went on to Howard University for her DDS — one of the few selected for their Prosthodontics Honors Program. Her GPR took her to Oklahoma City, where she trained at OU Medical Center and The Children's Hospital, treating kids with complex medical needs and adults most dentists only read about in textbooks. She spent extra months at the VA, learning techniques from clinicians who'd seen it all.

She taught at Fortis College. Then came back to Howard as faculty. Opened practices. Earned her Fellowship in the International College of Dentists. Built a career most dentists would call complete.

Then she built Alora. Because a complete career isn't the same as a completed problem.

She believes the technology that saves practices from voicemail shouldn't only be available to DSOs with six-figure software budgets. Every dentist who stayed late to finish notes, every associate grinding through a Saturday clinic, every new grad terrified they won't fill their books — they deserve a tool that actually works.

Alora is that tool. Relentlessly competent. Genuinely kind. Built by someone who still takes patients on Tuesdays.