Marea vs Bola AI
Bola AI vs Marea, side by side.
Dental-native voice scribe and charting.
Last reviewed November 2026
Bola AI is good at
- Deep dental terminology, including tooth numbering and surfaces.
- Read/write integration across the major dental PMS systems.
- Large installed base, with a track record across dentists and hygienists.
Where Marea wins
- Audio is discarded the moment it is transcribed, rather than stored under the BAA.
- Goes past the note: the referral letter drafts itself from what was just written.
- The phone and intake sit in the same system, so a scribe is not one of four vendors.
- Priced per location and published, rather than per provider.
Feature by feature.
Marea
Bola AI
Built for dentistry
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Visit notes
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✓
Note templates
Dental
Dental
Audio retention
Discarded
Stored per BAA
Letters
From the note
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Phone and intake
Marea Comms
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PMS integration
Direct write-back
Direct write-back
Pricing
Per location, published
Per provider
The short version
When to pick which.
Bola is a serious dental scribe and the closest comparison on the note itself. The question is scope: if the phones, the intake and the referral letters are already solved and you want the scribe on its own, Bola is a fair choice. If those are three more vendors, Marea is one system doing all of it, and it keeps no audio.
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