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However, sometimes a few of them will join up and form dental groups. Dentists in West Columbia who practice general dentistry have had to go to dental school for six to eight years. Dentists who specialize in certain areas have to go to school two to four years longer. A pre medical course has to be completed by them too before they are even accepted into dental college. If the dentist has a DDS after his or her name that means they are a doctor of dental surgery.