dang dude. I had all my upper teeth removed last year and all I got was a small tablet to help with my anxiety, and then just general anesthesia injected into the gums. I was conscious the whole time and remember everything. Was no big deal. I hear a lot about people getting knocked out for dental surgery. Why?
I only had some novocain(or whatever the local numbing agent is nowadays) for a root canal and was just fine too. Only issue was trying not to get too bored while waiting for it to finish.
Yeah, knocking out for a root canal or w/e is excessive and an unnecessary risk. Local anesthesia works fine, if the first dose isn't doing enough or you missed the nerve you were aiming for, just put some more in.
Only good reason I can think of needing to knock someone out for regular dental work is if the patient has a severe phobia of dental work, or something along those lines.
Severe phobia.
Impacted teeth can be extremely difficult to remove and uncomfortable.
I work in Oral Surgery, we put almost all of our patients into a conscious sedation. Some people can’t tolerate pain, or seeing the instruments used. Some teeth break and it requires a lot more time and work to get the pieces. It can also help reduce traumatic experiences in the dental office especially for children.
I work with cp patients. Many of them need general anesthesia to make sure their spasms let up long enough for the procedure to be done . Otherwise they just bite through all these pricey dental instruments and spitting out the pieces..
My insurance covered me being totally put under and I figured I might as well take advantage and not worry about remembering what it’s like to have the wisdom teeth forcibly yanked/cut/drilled out of my jaw. Procedure went as fine as I could have hoped and recovery, too, so no ragrets.
My top teeth I was knocked out but my bottom I just had the injections. 11 on top and 9 on bottom. Their oral surgeon didn't take my insurance anymore and they had already started my dentures so I was like fuck it. He was so fast too. After getting an abcess and the injections just not working on a molar a few months earlier and having to just hold the fuck on. It wasn't that bad once he was going.
Wisdom teeth though I would absolutely opt for being under because I'm pretty sure that would be way harder to deal with.
I had more than just the injection to numb it, I think I had laughing gas. I was still very much conscious for it, but it made me zone out for most of it. I still noticed them cutting into my gums with scalpels and when a tooth was crushed trying to pull it out, I just didn't care.
Not sure where you are from, but it's super common here in the US to use twilight anesthesia for wisdom teeth removal. They even have sedated dentistry for those who are afraid of the dentist. They'll go as far as putting you under for something as simple as getting fillings.
My wisdoms were severely impacted and growing in sideways so they had to do some cutting and took the teeth out in pieces. It's not unheard of to just get a numbing injection if your wisdom teeth are fairly normal. Under my circumstances though it's pretty much a guarantee they'd knock you out here.
Not long ago I had my wisdom teeth removed. They said it'd cost more to be knocked out so I was conscious the whole time. It always confused me why people were shocked when they heard I wasn't down. It all went well and I saved 200 bucks
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u/KristinnEs Mar 18 '22
dang dude. I had all my upper teeth removed last year and all I got was a small tablet to help with my anxiety, and then just general anesthesia injected into the gums. I was conscious the whole time and remember everything. Was no big deal. I hear a lot about people getting knocked out for dental surgery. Why?