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Doctor of Dental Surgery Program

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The Doctor of Dental Surgery (D.D.S.) degree is a program four years in length which consists of nine months for the first two years and eleven months for the last two clinical years.

Much of the first two years is devoted to the biomedical sciences of anatomy, biochemistry, histology, microbiology, pathology, pharmacology, and physiology. Pre-clinical technical courses are also taught to achieve a close correlation of the basic sciences with the clinical disciplines.

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