Though 2025 has been a challenging year for dental labs, it may still be the best time to be a dental technician – Ashley Byrne explains why.
Spend any time scrolling through professional forums or chatting with other lab owners and you could easily come away thinking the dental technology world is in constant crisis. Rising costs, recruitment issues, changing immigration rules, unpredictable workloads – the list is familiar to all of us.
And yet there’s another story unfolding at exactly the same time, a far more exciting and far less often told one. Despite the challenges, and in many ways because of them, this is the most dynamic, creative and opportunity-rich period the dental technology profession has ever experienced.
Never in our history has the dental technician had so much influence, such powerful tools, or such direct involvement in the clinical process. Never have the barriers between dentist and technician been so thin. And never has the profession offered such a wide range of paths for those with curiosity, digital confidence and a desire to create exceptional dentistry.
Technology has finally caught up with imagination
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