Is this some USA thing to use so much anesthesia for toothwork that it stones you?
I had all my wisdom teeth extracted too, the lower ones when I was a teen and the upper ones recently in my thirties, and all that was necessary was a local injection that numbed your mouth but didn't affect cognition. And they weren't easy extractions either: one was only half-emerged so they had to cut the gum to uncover it, and two were so crooked that they had to break them with a hammer and chisel in order to extract them piece by piece.
(And it is not that I have a particularly high pain threshold; that was my grandfather who didn't like the numbness from the drugs so when he had this procedure done, he forced the poor dentist to work without any whatsoever - and after they were done he told the doctor "See! It wasn't that bad")
I had all my wisdom teeth extracted too, the lower ones when I was a teen and the upper ones recently in my thirties, and all that was necessary was a local injection that numbed your mouth but didn't affect cognition. And they weren't easy extractions either: one was only half-emerged so they had to cut the gum to uncover it, and two were so crooked that they had to break them with a hammer and chisel in order to extract them piece by piece.
(And it is not that I have a particularly high pain threshold; that was my grandfather who didn't like the numbness from the drugs so when he had this procedure done, he forced the poor dentist to work without any whatsoever - and after they were done he told the doctor "See! It wasn't that bad")