Ashley Byrne

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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.

‘You are worth charging for’ – Ashley Byrne explains some of the key mistakes dental labs make when pricing services. Dental technicians are a proud bunch. We work hard, we solve problems, we get the job done. But somewhere along the way, many labs have backed themselves into a corner where they’re busy all week and still wondering where the profit went. Sound familiar? It’s a situation I’ve seen far too often and sadly it’s on the rise.