Dr. Cheryl Cable is an Associate Professor at the Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry at the University of Alberta. She practices dentistry part-time in a multidisciplinary private practice with a focus on functional rehabilitation. Edmonton born and raised, Dr. Cable received her BSc, DDS and MBA degrees from the University of Alberta. She went to the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota for Prosthodontic and Maxillofacial Prosthodontic specialty training completed in 2001. Dr. Cable is a board certified specialist in Prosthodontics as well as an examiner for the RCDC(C). She is a dental consultant for the Province of Alberta on oral health care specialty programs.
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excellent topic. It will only be a shift if we as a profession allow it. Why would we?
We use the term patient as we provide medical type services to our dental ‘patients’. However we also understand the term patient can also mean ‘one off’ (similar to customer), whereas ‘client’ in the business world is recurring or receives ongoing or long term services – like our ‘regular patients’. It would certainly be a paradigm shift in our practice to change our terminology from patient to client.
Interesting topic!
As a chiropractor, we always use the term “patients”, not “clients”.