As a dental technician, or dental technologist, you’ll use your design skills and dentistry knowledge to create and repair dental devices. Learn more about what it’s like to work in this role, what qualifications you’ll need and how your career could progress.
Dental technicians help improve people’s teeth. Whether based in a laboratory or hospital, you’ll create devices for patients from a dentist's prescription. Working both on your own and as part of a team, you’ll be designing and making things like bridges, dentures, crowns and implants.
By designing devices on a computer, then making them by hand, you’ll be skilled in working both digitally and physically. It’s a really rewarding role, as the devices you make could be used to help a patient’s ability to eat, speak or improve their appearance.
Daily tasks might include:
The average salary for a dental technician in the UK is £29,120.
As a dental technician, you’ll usually be based in one location. This means travel for work is rare.
Working from home is uncommon as this role is likely to be based in a lab or hospital.
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