Thirty years in dental technology, spent making the case for the craft — and the people behind it.
Why discounting your skill tells the whole profession what you think it’s worth. The race to the bottom is the one race in this trade where the winner still loses.
For the first time ever, registered dental technicians have fallen below 5,000. Six consecutive years of decline. Just 143 new registrants in the whole of 2025.
The person who keeps information close and makes themselves indispensable by ensuring nobody else has the full picture. It feels like power. It's in the book.
What the DCP Network taught me about silos and solidarity.
Authority that isn’t earned in the room — just expected on arrival — doesn’t lead. It occupies. And the people around it quietly stop growing. It’s in the book.
They mean well. But they can’t let go. The team capable of more never gets the chance — because the person above them won’t allow it. It’s in the book.
Not a textbook. A book about knowing your worth — for anyone who’s spent a career being quietly talked out of theirs.
Sharp, recognisable archetypes and one clear argument: visibility isn’t arrogance. It’s respect.
Open, honest conversations about the profession, the people in it, and the things we don’t talk about enough.
With Dr Barry Glassman and Helen Everatt — hidden illness, chronic pain, and the patients so often not believed.
Confronting the year-on-year decline in registered dental technicians — what’s driving it, and what it costs us.
Work-life balance, equality, and a frank turn into social media and safety.
I came into dental technology at sixteen and never left. Thirty years on — after co-founding S4S Dental Laboratory and building it for two decades — I write, broadcast and advocate for one stubborn idea: the people who make this profession work are too often the ones it overlooks.
As Editor-in-Chief of Laboratory Magazine, host of the Bridge the Gap Podcast and author of The Invisible Professional, the throughline is simple — none of us does this alone, and none of us should have to be invisible to do it well.
