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Would/Do you call your Dentist .. Dr?

Dentists hold the right to call themselves Dr .... Do you agree that they should use this title before their name?
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But they're not proper doctors.

They're just....dentists.

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Original post by Miss Understood
But they're not proper doctors.

They're just....dentists.

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LOL .....
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Einheri
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I don't believe that anyone without an academic doctorate should use the title.
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munn
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I'm British so I don't even know what a dentist is.




Americans actually believe this.
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I don't believe that anyone without an academic doctorate should use the title.


Too bad .. A medical student who has completed his 5 year course does!
I can't recall me ever calling my dentist Dr... I call my professors Dr. but that's about it.
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i never have but isn't dentistry a longer course than medicine?
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i never have but isn't dentistry a longer course than medicine?


No they both take 5 years
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Original post by Insomnia
No they both take 5 years


oh thanks
I always call my dentist Doctor. What else would I call him? :confused:
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Kiwiiiii
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Dr
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abbyalice
I have/do.
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xStaceyy
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If he rightfully holds the doctorate then yes.
he didn't slave through med school....or get a PHd....

I call him "dentist".....although we are on a first name basis....so its coolio :biggrin:
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'Alright, mate.'
http://www.nature.com/bdj/journal/v209/n9/full/sj.bdj.2010.985.html

It's certainly a relevant and controversial subject
I expect the use of the term doctor will soon be outlawed and restricted to medical graduates and PhD holders only, so call yourself Doctor whilst you still can!
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I don't really say anything to address him. I find whenever he ever talks to me/ask me question's it's when he's working on my mouth and I can't talk.
He insists on calling me Stace so I call him by his first name.

He doesn't mind.
Unless they have a doctorate, I don't.

I call mine 'Ms' as that's how she introduced herself to me.

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