Dental laboratory corporates, they’re here! they have taken over and if you don’t play nice, your livelihood is on the line!

I said two years ago, after COVID,  was a prime time for dental laboratories to be taken over by corporate entities due to the way dental laboratories was treated during the COVID period and the way the cash flow has been for dental laboratories on a 28 day credit basis. The article I saw on a report stated that “the dental laboratory industry is ripe due to it being a fragmented market instead of a concentrated market”.

In the last year alone, over 50 dental laboratories have been part of acquisitions through out the UK with 2 – 3 main players dominating this space and new ones entering as of 2024.

Rando is short for random, I came across this term upon a meeting with a dental practice who used this phrase when they were talking about their associates using ‘rando’ labs for their laboratory work, this phrase did make me laugh.