Trying to Delete a Continuing Care Type But Can't?

A frequent question from customers calling in to our Support department is this:

"I am trying to delete a continuing care type our office doesn't use but Dentrix displays a message stating that there are patient's attached to the type so I can't delete it. I ran a report from the Continuing Care module and don't see any patients attached to that type. What's going on?"

If an inactive or