A KENDAL dental practice welcomed back its first patients since December's floods this week.

Oasis Dental Care, on Stramongate, was one of many homes and businesses 'completely ruined' by floodwater. During the past eight weeks, emergency patients have been treated at the Oasis practice in Grange-over-Sands, said Tracey Almond, Cumbria area team leader.

The dental surgery has been completely renovated and it reopened on Monday (February 1).