THE Houston Dental Practice in Milton Road, Weston, has been selected as the outstanding surgery in the UK for patients overall experience of care, facilities and service.

THE Houston Dental Practice in Milton Road, Weston, has been selected as the outstanding surgery in the UK for patients' overall experience of care, facilities and service.

The professional dental journal, Dental Practice, created the 'WOW!' award, to recognise champions of patient care provision.

The practice was chosen as the overall winner by a panel of dental experts and the selection process involved visits to the practice, written submissions and presentations to the judges at the Royal Society of Medicine in London.

The panel praised the quality of facilities for patients and the consistently high standards of integrated and overall care.

To mark the achievement the practice received a specially commissioned piece of artwork which was presented to joint practice principal Dr David Houston by Mr Gavin Willis and Mr Roger Gullidge, directors of the main sponsors, Paradigm Dental Design based in Somerset.

The artwork is now hanging in the patients' waiting room of the Smile & Face building.

Houston Dental Practice has received a number of awards including ITV's Dental Practice of the Millennium, the Cordent Trust Award and six successive triumphs in 'The Probe' Magazine Dental Awards.

Dr Houston, well known as the resident dental expert on BBC Radio 5 Live, has also recently been voted one of the UK's leading 25 dental industry figures in a poll by Dentistry magazine.