For those of you who do YouGov surveys, I've just been asked an interesting question!

"Dentists in the UK are currently allowed to use the courtesy title ‘Dr’ provided that it is clear that they are a dentist and not a medical doctor.
To what extent do you agree or disagree with the following statement?
Dentists in the UK should be allowed to use the courtesy title ‘Dr’ in this way"

Opened up as a poll, be interesting to debate this as I didn't know they were actually allowed to do this!

Not to be contrary, but it would have been nice to have a 'neither agree or disagree' option. I'm of the opinion that it really doesn't matter. If, historically, medical practitioners felt the need to have the title to distinguish themselves from mere non-descript members of the public, then why not dentists? Why not physiotherapists? Why not other other allied health professionals, provided they distinguish themselves from medical doctors? What I'm trying to say is that it all seems quite whimsical to me, pointless posturing, much ado about nothing.