Tiwari Watson Dental Blog

It wasn’t the best of starts to the week at TWDC as we had a power supply failure on Tuesday morning. We’re very sorry to the patients who unfortunately had to have their appointments rescheduled as we waited on Scottish Power to save the day for us. They were actually in the day before, upgrading our whole system so that we can accommodate more electric car chargers in the future for patients and staff (watch this space.) I was actually impressed at how quickly they managed to get someone out to get it sorted for us, but given the cost of keeping the lights on these days I suppose I can see why!

Raashi and I were just back from a few days in Marbella too – first time abroad since the pandemic began, it was brilliant! I briefly thought about the no carbs before marbs diet, but then quickly sacked that idea off as carbs are just brilliant and I love them all. Fair play to these people who can maintain tip top beach bods, I did try to get in better shape but at the end of the day I just love to sit on the sofa and eat crisps 🤷🏻‍♂️.

We went with 4 friends and left the kids at home in the very capable hands of the grandparents. I think they got on OK as my own son Ronan was calling me Grandpa for a few days when I got back, either that or perhaps the holiday put a few years on me. My mum even said to go ahead and book the same holiday next year though 🎰!

We hit another jackpot this week as TWDC reached 300 google reviews, 4.9* overall. Thanks so much to all our patients for taking the time to leave us feedback – it means so much. We read any new reviews or feedback out during our morning meetings so it’s always nice start to the day when patients mention certain team members etc.

I left the hotel in Marbs a 5* review. Everything was brilliant about it but randomly there were free toothbrush kits everywhere. How could I not 5* that!?

Speaking of partying, it wasn’t such a good week for the occupants of the UK’s top party venue, number 10 Downing Street. At the end of these blogs I usually write ‘have a good week all’. I wonder if someone said the same thing to Liz Truss and Kwazi Kwarteng last Sunday. Safe to say it didn’t work for them if so! 🤦🏻‍♂️

Hope anyone reading this has better luck – have a good week all!

Joe

Joseph Watson BDS MFDS RCPS MSc (Implantology)

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It’s been a very busy period at TWDC lately so it’s been nice to see our staff enjoy some well deserved time off/holidays over this past few months. Raashi and I spent a week in Ireland with the kids and went to my mums caravan, we also spent a few days in London without the kids. It was interesting to feel the difference in travelling with and without the baggage (although we did take bags). It was mayhem on the trip to Ireland, total bliss en route to London. I honestly didn’t even mind queuing up at security for the London trip….. ‘Take your time mate, would you like me to take my shoes off?’ …I said without a worry as we breezed our way through, smugly looking at the parents with infants causing havoc …’suckers’.

I made the most of the quiet time and had a snooze on the flight, poor Raashi had to watch me fly catching the whole time as I woke up thinking we were just about to take off when the pilot announced ‘cabin crew prepare for landing.’

Thankfully I managed to stay awake for a large proportion of the rest of the trip and we had a lovely time. There is just tons to do in London. We saw a play (Hamilton, – unreal btw), went to a jazz bar (Ronnie Scotts – also unreal), Notting Hill carnival, a comedy show and all the sights. We had some great food and drink along the way too.

Selfie O’clock at Big Ben. We tried to do a tour of the houses of parliament but it was closed unfortunately. I guess they closed after Boris Johnsons revolutionary money saving idea….spend £20 on a new kettle, to save £10 a year on bills, …quids in from year 3. I can imagine them all clapping and saying ‘here here’ then just closing up shop – energy pricing crisis solved, job done.

Michael Corr – the artist painting our wall at the practice, truly got the job done after a few weeks of graft and it’s looking absolutely brilliant. What a talent he is. We’re really happy with it and hope our patients like it too:

Much better than staring at a blank wall on the way in so hopefully this provides at least some mild form of relaxation for our more nervous patients prior to attending!

I tried to paint a picture of the view from my mums caravan recently, naively thinking I could make a decent go at it. It’s embarrassingly terrible so I have a new found respect for real artists and think I’ll be sticking to the day job from now on.

Before starting back to said day job I’m excited for Manchester United v Arsenal today followed by Kev-i-n Bridges later on tonight. Might even get a wee late night Chinese to finish off the weekend, no hoose rice though.

Take care all and have a good week ahead,

Joe

Joseph Watson BDS MFDS RCPS MSc (Implantology)

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So our team made it to the top of the UK’s highest summit Ben Nevis on Saturday – raising nearly £3000 for Marie Curie in the process! Thank you to all of our patients, friends and family for the generous donations – all very welcome. For anyone who would still like to contribute, our donation page will be open for another couple of days and can be found here:

I really enjoyed it but I never want to hear the phrase ‘nearly there’ again. This was used an awful lot on Saturday and 99% of the time it was a total lie. I found myself automatically spreading the fake news to people on my way back down though. “Nearly there” I said smugly as I passed by people on their way up – knowing full well they were absolutely not nearly there. Unfortunately this tactic came back to bite me as the further we got down and the car park came into view, it then seemed to stop getting any closer for the next 2 hours at least. ‘Nearly there’ we were saying to each other while scratching our heads and staring at the car park mirage…

The views were similar in the sense that 99% of them were not so great, basically nothing but feet and rocks for most of it, but when we got the chance to look up that other 1% was absolutely stunning and well worth it:

Raashi and I had a well deserved Chinese takeaway once we got back and even went for the double whammy and had the leftovers for lunch the next day – probably undoing all of our hard work calorie wise! I try not to count calories too often to be honest as I find it too depressing, 50 calories on the running machine/rower/bike feels like so much hard work, a total graft – and it’s about the equivalent of the head of a Freddo – which is gone in seconds! Not fair.

This week it seems our summer has finally arrived with a 2 day heat wave on the cards. Proper taps aff weather. It’s hard to know if this is just summer finally here, or is 30 degrees in Glasgow a worrying sign of climate change? Taps aff for us normally starts at about 19 degrees and cloudy. At 30 degrees sunshine we’re really approaching taps back oan and stay in the shade kind of weather!

Thankfully all our surgeries and waiting area are fully air conditioned – for 2 days a year it comes in very handy indeed. That’s taps oan for all our patients and staff!

Thanks again to everyone for all the kind donations, very much appreciated! Here’s that link again for anyone that can still contribute:

https://www.justgiving.com/fundraising/tiwari-watsondentalcare1

Take care in the sun and have a good week all,

Joe

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Having moved into a new house recently the blog has taken a back seat for a while. We’ve been knee deep in boxes of what seems to be mainly children’s toys & random items we’ll probably never ever use. It’s amazing how much completely useless stuff we all hold on to thinking we’ll use it one day. I’ve still got my old GCSE Italian listening exam tapes just incase…🤷🏻‍♂️

This has occupied most of our weekends lately but we did manage to have a lovely work day out with the staff recently too. We went to Loch Lomond for some Highland games, followed by lunch and then a speedboat pub tour around the Loch:

It was great fun and I was delighted to win my first medal since school when team ‘Mac & cheese’ lifted the Highland games cup at the end. Our patients may have noticed the new trophy proudly taking centre stage in our reception area cabinet (it’s the one that looks like an egg cup).

We’re all hoping to add to our trophy cabinet in a couple of weeks as we take on Ben Nevis, the highest mountain in the UK; to raise money for Marie Curie Hospice in Balornock. Sadly, there’s no actual trophy, but a team photo at the top would be a nice enough reward (should we all make it!) None of us have trained for it but we’re taking a couple of seasoned pro’s along to help keep us right. One of them is our nurse Bili’s boyfriend Grieg, he’s done it before and is therefore in charge of directions. The other is our patient Matthew who hasn’t done it before but he is a personal trainer. He’s therefore in charge of the piggy back shuttle runs for those of us who can’t make it any further. I’m really not sure how my dodgy knee will cope (or my dodgy ankle on the other side) so I’ll insist on a team photo at the bottom too, before we start, ….just incase.

If you can donate to help us raise as much as possible that would be very much appreciated – TIA!:

https://www.justgiving.com/fundraising/tiwari-watsondentalcare1

Back on ground level we’ve got some work starting at the practice just now too. We never got round to painting our wall at the back of the practice before opening up but we’ve finally managed to get it sorted now:

Micheal is an artist and has now made a start on our ‘canvas’ – so watch this space! At home I started painting our decking with a spray paint a while ago too and as I surveyed my masterpiece at the end I turned around and realised the wind had caught the paint and it went all over the car so just a head’s up for patients – park around the front for the next couple of weeks 😂 🤦🏻‍♂️. I’ll be sticking to the day job.

Speaking of which:

I just fitted this implant denture this week for one of our patients. Is it strange of me to really appreciate that noise? I know a lot of people hate anything to do with teeth or dentures, but anyone who unfortunately has to wear one will know that full bottom dentures move around so much and can be a total nightmare to manage. We do a lot of these type of cases where just 2 dental implants help hold it in place and make it so much easier to cope. If you’d like to find out more please just get in touch!

Take care all and hopefully by my next blog team Mac n cheese will have ‘peaked’ in our achievements.

Joe

Joseph Watson

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It’s been a busy few weeks at Tiwari Watson Dental Care! Our patients will have noticed we’re allowed more people in the waiting room as we can see more patients now compared to earlier on in the pandemic. Our waiting times are unfortunately still quite long so I’m working on plans to extend if possible, bring in some more staff and bring those waiting times down! I’d also love to have enough space to re-install a shower in the building so that I can cycle to work. When we first moved over to our new premises we had to sacrifice the shower to make way for a bigger staff room. My cycle dreams were therefore over before they started as who would want a smelly dentist treating them 🤢😷

I need a new form of exercise now that my football career is over (1. dislocated my knee, 2. too old, 3. terrible footballer) so I’m thinking cycling could be the answer. At the minute it’s golf but I don’t think that’s enough cardio wise, and anyway I’d undo all my hard work at the 19th hole 🍻. I think I’m also in with a shout of being the worst golfer in Scotland (starting to realise I’m not actually great at sport in general) but I guess that means more steps/exercise trying to find my ball after every shot 🤷🏻‍♂️

Running about after the kids seems to be the best exercise I have at the moment. I had a dad my age in at work this week doing the same with his young daughter too. It was actually his daughters appointment and when I asked “is it just a check up today?” he panicked and said ’God I don’t know I was just told to bring her here at this time.’ It really made me laugh as I absolutely sympathised with the situation. Us guys are frequently told what to do re: after-school clubs, sports, parties, appointments etc. It might not be the best exercise but I think my fellow dad had a sweat on for a wee second at least 😆

Raashi and I had a wee break from running about after the kids last month when we went to old Trafford to see Manchester United. I emailed the club to see if we could swap seats because of my knee and they put us in a box for FREE! 😂:

Speaking of big changes some of our patients will have seen on our website & social media that we can now make dentures/retainers/crowns/veneers/whitening trays straight from intra-oral scans, meaning no more messy old school moulds/impressions of your teeth. Check out our nurse Tiegan doing a scan for one of our patients and the accuracy of the final result:

If Manchester United are the equivalent of taking slow, messy impressions, the scanner is so much quicker and better – a bit like Manchester City or Liverpool. Pains me to say that but its true!

Have a good week all and take care!

Joe

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What a week it’s been with the storms. I’ve seen a few videos online of trampolines going for a jump themselves and even bins and sheds doing the same. I’ve been trying to ‘get my steps in’ this week too but sometimes our dog wee Fergie just stands still with the ears flopped, head tilted and looks up at me as if to say “I can’t be bothered to be honest 🥺” I’ve been looking back saying “you and me both Fergs”. Raashi and I have been aiming for 10,000 steps daily but the end of the garden and back leaves about 9990. We’ve got a bit of catching up to do but I reckon we’ll wait until the weather settles incase we get hit by a trampoline.

This week we also booked a charity event for the Summer for most of our staff. We’re climbing Ben Nevis in aid of Marie Curie. The last time we were able to organise a team charity event was before the pandemic where we walked from Balmaha to Milngavie, raising over £2k for the same charity. It took us about 10 hours as we came off the track for lunch (& a pint!) and cost ourselves so much extra time and effort. I remember at the time the staff asking me If I had trained for it. I replied saying I’ve been walking since I was 2 and that no extra practice was required. That proved wrong as it was so tough and we were definitely hobbling to the finish line and for a couple of days afterwards! – This time around I’m putting in the practice and getting in at least 10 steps per day currently 👀. 

Last week I took the kids to check out the other forms of transport available at the Riverside Transport Museum. It was pretty good and it’s all free too. If you’ve got young kids it’s definitely a good wee afternoon out. For some reason they also have a lot of dinosaurs around:

Lately we’ve been making the most of the transport options available actually and got the boat back to Belfast during the half term. I always enjoy the ceremonial handing over of the kids to the grandparents when I go back home. Raashi and I made the most of it and booked into a spa hotel that my parents bought us for Christmas pre pandemic:

We spent some time with friends too and even went clubbing in Belfast City Centre. 💃🏻🕺🏻. Never too old 😊. Once we had recovered we signed the kids back out and came back to Glasgow, it was such a nice trip! My parents probably need a spa visit of their own now though…

To keep up with the latest form of transport we’re in the process of installing an electric car charger at work. At the moment it’s only a staff one but we’ll be putting in more soon that our patients can use for free too. Apparently we need Scottish Power to give us more ‘va va voom’ to the building first. Watch this space ⚡️.

Take care all and have a nice week…

Joe

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It’s been a while since I’ve had a chance to write a blog post as we’ve been so busy lately with moving house, Christmas/New Year, and just watching TV in bed. Last night that was Season 4 of Ozark – if you haven’t started it yet – get on it! It’s my favourite show since Breaking Bad, and so far there’s been no ‘fly on the wall’ episode either so it may be even better!

This week I ‘celebrated’ my 34th birthday too actually. Sadly I didn’t have a party as I was on a training course for 2 days in Coventry. Well, I didn’t go to a party because it wasn’t a party, but even if there was one nobody told me it was a party but there was alcohol involved at night, but it wasn’t a party, as it was definitely work related and I was only there for the 25 minutes but then I stayed for the (not an) after party. Funnily enough there was a lady called Sue there. I don’t think anybody sang happy birthday but it’s a Gray area so I guess we’ll have to wait and see what Sue says about it.

It was a shame to be away from the kids for it but they face-timed me and made the most of my chocolate cake in my absence. The course itself was probably the best one I’ve been on since my graduation in fairness. It was to do with bone grafting and sinus lift procedures in relation to dental implants. I thoroughly enjoyed it and let’s be honest, who cares about the 34th anyway! I reckon anything in between 30 and 40 is the ‘meh’ emoji > 😒. My next big one is the 40th – I’ll not be booking any courses during that as there definitely will be a party then – BYOB.

Thankfully not all my trips to England are alone as over the last few weeks Raashi and I managed to get to Newcastle together to see a football game which was nice:

Raashi is originally from Newcastle but I think I’ve managed to convert her to be a red now. Although we were literally up in cloud 9 with the seats, it wasn’t to be the same with the result as sadly it was Newcastle 1 Manchester United 1, and we were lucky to come away with a point to be honest. It was still a nice day away though – with all the restrictions we’ve been used to over the last couple of years it’s nice to have things in the diary to get excited about. I’m looking forward to our next ‘away day’ which is in Belfast at my parents in a few weeks time.

At work we have a new therapist starting this week, her name is Saima and she will be helping to bring our appointment waiting times down as much as possible. I’m sorry our patients are having to wait so long at the moment but we are getting there and hopefully with Saima now starting we will see a big difference!

Take care all and enjoy the rest of your weekend..

Joe

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Not long back in from our daughter Mila’s 5th birthday party this morning. We arranged for it to be in a nearby bar that has an upstairs nightclub/private function area. There were 28 kids in there all dancing & going absolutely wild with a few even sleeping in the booths at the side. It probably wasn’t too dissimilar from what went on the night before when the adults were in.

The kids chicken nuggets that were on the go were absolutely unreal so I made sure to clean up as best I could at the end. “All those plates were empty the kids must have been hungry 😋” . Thankfully Mila absolutely loved it too and is now napping on the sofa all danced out.

I’d go for a wee nap myself only we have to continue packing our house up for moving out in 2 weeks time. Explaining the move to our kids wasn’t easy at first actually. Their initial reaction was to cry as they thought that all our stuff, (their toys & beds etc) got left behind with the house. When we explained that all our stuff comes with us they thought we were physically lifting our house from the foundations and moving it elsewhere with everything inside. To be honest, with the amount of things we have this actually might have been easier!

Before the mayhem really begins Raashi and I were lucky enough to spend a night away at Glenapp Castle in Ballantrae last week:

This was courtesy of Raashi’s mum for my birthday last year, and we just got round to using it. It was a great wee spot with a delicious 6 course dinner and a better yet a lie in. For anyone out there without kids – never underestimate your lie in on a Sunday!

I wanted to wait until after Mila’s party to shave all my facial hair and leave the moustache so I’m sure Raashi will be delighted that’s the look I’m now going for for the rest of the month. Our community fund of £100 will be donated to men’s health charities this month for ‘Movember’ so apologies in advance for my Freddie Mercury effort. My younger brother Jordan says of moustache’s “they’re coming back into fashion”. Mine will be a pretty pathetic one so I’m not sure he will be impressed with my efforts for the moustache fashion industry.

If any of our patients have any good ones on the go at the moment please tag us as we’d love to see it! 🥸

‘Must dash’ now …

Have a good week all,

Joe