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Just a reminder to all Abindon residents that this weekend should have been the 13th Annual Dragon Boat Race. This year following heavy rain the River is too high to allow the race to proceed so the event has been... read more.

Ock Street Clinic will be closed over the bank holiday weekend 5-7th May 2012. If you have any kind of dental emergency over the weekend we have arranged help:Private patients: call 01367 243947 to reach the South Oxfordshire Private Dentists... read more.

Just a reminder that this weekend is the Abingdon Music Fesival. Ock Street Clinic is a proud sponsor of the festival and we wish all the organisers and participants every success. The performances take place in The School of St... read more.

I am pleased to give you some advanced notice of our new dental sedation service that we are launching in May 2012. read more.

Last week our builders erected scaffolding on Ock Street in the next phase of our development. They are converting our old staff room and changing facilities into a new extra waiting room and two treatment rooms, one specifically designed for... read more.

Ock Street Clinic are pleased to sponsor the Abingdon Music Festival.  One part of the festival is the 'Concerto Class' which takes place this weekend at Silk Hall in Radley College in Abingdon.The Concerto Class commences on Sunday 22nd April... read more.

New research published in The International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology has revealed a link between mouth bacteria and meningitis. Our mouths contain huge populations of bacteria and one of these, streptococcus tigurinius, has been discovered both in the... read more.

It seems strange to be writing about oral sex and dentists, but its an important subject that we have been thinking about for a few years at Ock Street Clinic.Last year (2011) the number of cases of mouth cancer rose... read more.

We are proud to announce that Lucy Cranswick has achieved her Certificate in Dental Radiography. Lucy studied hard for this qualification which enables her to assist the dentists by taking both intraoral and extraoral x rays without direct supervision.Congratulations Lucy! read more.

Does Periodontal Health impact on longevity? This was the question posed at a recent dental seminar by Professor Iain Chapple from Birmingham University. His cental argument was based on a study of 1,200 males in Boston USA who were followed... read more.