To study, promote, maintain and protect the skills and interests of its members and to improve the standards of those skills and of the services provided by its members to the community via their employees, the dental profession or direct to the public; to raise and maintain the standard of clinical dental technicians and dental technicians in the community.
To promote a spirit of co-operation amongst its members, and to reconcile any differences that may arise between the various factions that make up the field of dental technology.
To encourage an adequate intake of recruits to the industry by maintaining an interest in the development and administration of courses in dental technology and clinical dental technology by means of liaison, and co-operation with any education or training institution involved in such courses of training.