Communicate with every patient
Learn the language you actually use chairside, from greeting and medical history to treatment and post-op instructions. Real dental conversations, native audio, five-minute sessions.
Built for dentists, hygienists, assistants and dental students.
Speak their language, even a little, and nobody's alone in the chair.
What would you say to your patient?
“Do you have any pain?”
Learn the phrases you actually need, not vocabulary you'll never use.
Knowing a language isn't enough
A dental appointment has its own script. You have to greet the patient, take a medical history, explain a procedure, ask about pain, give post-op instructions, and build enough trust that they come back. General language courses never teach any of it.
- Greeting
- Medical history
- Exam
- Anaesthesia
- Treatment
- Pain
- Post-op instructions
- Payment & next visit
Practise real dental conversations
Every lesson is built around a moment that actually happens in your operatory.
Speak, don't translate
Practise the exact phrases you use at the chair: greeting, exam, treatment, payment.
Real voices
Native audio for every phrase, with slow playback when you need it.
Say it out loud
Speaking exercises listen to you and check the phrase before you use it on a patient.
Practise with a patient
Hold a whole appointment conversation with an AI patient who answers back.
Adaptive review
Miss a phrase and it comes back until it sticks.
Chairside phrasebook
A searchable reference for the moment you need it mid-appointment.
You also track your progress and earn a shareable certificate along the way.
Reviewed by a dentist
Every lesson, phrase and translation is contributed and reviewed by Dr Daiane Pootz, a dentist from Brazil living in the United States — so what you learn is what a real appointment sounds like.
This is the app
Real screens, not mock-ups. Every exercise is built around a moment that happens in a real appointment.
Not another language app.Not a translation tool.Dental language training.
Translation gets you through a sentence. DentaLingo teaches you the conversation, so the words come from you, not from a phone. That's what builds trust in the chair.
It speaks for you. Your patient hears a device, and looks at it instead of you.
You speak. Your patient hears you trying in their language, and relaxes.
Choose your course
Who it's for
For dental students
Walk into clinic ready for the patient who doesn't speak your language, with the phrases you'll use in a real encounter, not on an exam.
For dental professionals
Communicate more confidently with multilingual patients, without relying on a relative to interpret or an app in your pocket.
Too busy to learn a language?
Practise for five minutes between patients, before clinic, or on your commute. Streaks that survive a busy week.
Questions we get asked
How can I learn Spanish for dentistry?
Start from the phrases you will actually use in an appointment rather than from a general Spanish course. DentaLingo is a free app that teaches dental Spanish in short lessons following one real visit — greeting, medical history, examination, anesthesia, treatment, pain, post-op instructions, payment — with pronunciation practice and an AI patient you can hold a conversation with.
Is dental Spanish different from medical Spanish?
Yes. Medical Spanish is written for physicians: symptoms, body systems, hospital wards. A dental appointment has its own script and its own words — teeth and gums, fillings and X-rays, "bite down", "rinse please", "you'll feel a small pinch" — and general medical courses barely touch them.
Who writes the content?
The dental content is contributed and reviewed by Dr Daiane Pootz, a dentist from Brazil living in the United States. Every lesson, phrase and translation goes past a dentist before it reaches the app, so the wording is what you would actually say to a patient rather than a literal translation out of a textbook.
Do I need to speak the language already?
No. Lessons start at greetings and build from there, and every new phrase comes back in review until it sticks. The AI patient is held to the vocabulary you have already been taught, so a conversation never runs past what you know.
Which languages does it teach?
Spanish, English, Portuguese, French, German, Italian, Mandarin Chinese and Japanese — and any of the eight can be learned from any of the others. A Brazilian dentist can learn dental Spanish, a dental student in the US can learn dental Portuguese, a dentist in Montreal can learn dental French.
Is it free?
Yes. The whole course is free, with no subscription and no in-app purchases. The phrase guides on this site need no account at all.
Free phrase guides
Browse the phrases first. No account, nothing to install.
Your next patient may not speak your language
Download DentaLingo on your phone and practise in five-minute sessions.
