What do dentists give their patients for anesthesia in the US? There are so many videos of people who went to dentist and came back high af. What you guys smokin over there?

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  2. I never got anything but lidocaine injections. If y’all getting high gimme your dentist’s number.

  3. I think the videos you’ve seen are vastly overblown. General anesthesia (which is the anesthesia that knocks you out) isn’t actually used very often anymore in the US for dentistry. Occasionally it is, but not nearly as often as social media and entertainment portray it.

  4. It’s nitrous oxide. I’ve never had it, nor my wife or any of my kids. But it seems common enough.

    Of course, the videos you see are there because they are weird. What you don’t see are the literally hundreds of millions of dental visits per year where people don’t have this and nothing “exciting” occurs.

  5. There’s dentistry and oral surgery. Two different things.

    A dentist will normally only give a local anesthetic like Novocain, which doesn’t get you high. Just numbs your mouth and may make you drool or slur, if you consider that appearing high.

    The people you saw videos on were likely oral surgery patients, usually for wisdom tooth extraction. For that they are usually given a twilight drug like Propophol, which can knock a person out during the surgery and when they come out will appear high af until it wears off.

  6. The only time I ever had anything other than nitrous oxide was when I had all 4 wisdom teeth removed.

  8. Everyone here is saying nitrous oxide, but thats not the one that knocks you out. General anesthesia is the one that makes you go to sleep, and is much more common. Didnt to shit to me, I might have been a little more smiley and laughy thats it.

  10. Most of the time you will get a shot or two. Some doctors will give you nitrous. I have had that done once, and loved it.

  11. A variety of drugs may be used for general anesthesia, which is often used on kids or teens when wisdom teeth are removed. During emergence there may be mental confusion, and these days kids may ask parents to record them emerging so they can share those videos with friends. Sometimes those videos go viral.

  12. You might be thinking of general anesthesia for dental surgery. Have you ever interacted with a post-op patient? They generally are pretty damn loopy while the general wears off. It affects everyone different though. If you have had surgery you might not even remember how you acted when you woke up.

    For normal dental procedures they normally just use a local anesthetic. You might walk out feeling like half your face is numb if you are unlucky, but that’s about it.

  13. Anesthesia is reserved for people who need it as it would be too painful otherwise. Most doctors will not just give it out if it can be helped. The handful of videos you see in a county of 330+ million people is nothing compared to the thousands of dentist who don’t nornally use anesthesia for a tooth pulling.

    Seeing videos of people not high on it isn’t entertaining, thus you don’t see it.

    Also, I think you’re talking about laughing gas which is used to numb the pain, again, isn’t something used all the time but when it’s needed either if the doctor thinks so or if you can’t handle the pain.

  14. Like other people have mentioned, for general dental procedures you just get a local anesthetic. They give twilight sedation for wisdom tooth removal typically, and that’s where those videos come from

  15. I’m asking this because I knew whatever was given to those patients was for removing wisdom teeth and I had mine removed today but felt nothing like it, kinda dissapointed haha.

  16. I think you’re mixing normal dental work with surgery.

    For normal dental work, they give you Lidocaine. I happen to be resistant to it, so I typically get Novocain or Septocaine. (Turns out dental work *isn’t* supposed to be white-hot agony!)

    For surgery, yes, they absolutely drug you the hell up.

  17. I’m sitting in a dentist chair right now getting a crown, no anesthesia. I think it’s only if they are doing some surgeries or if there are extenuating circumstances.

  18. Briefly worked at a periodontist’s office for a summer. He used mostly used versed for sedation and morphine for pain. Some places use inhaled nitrous oxide, “laughing gas,” for some procedures as it’s safe and the second you stop breathing it, it stops working.

    It’s usually a combination of meds that causes it but I have seen patients get “high” (acting as you see in the videos) from high doses of pain meds. Especially if they are given too quickly.

    I gave a guy some fentanyl after he wrecked his motorcycle one time. He went from complaining of pain to silent, then said, “that’s a funny song,” and started laughing uncontrollably. The radio was on but turned down. We get to the hospital and the doctor asks if he’s in any pain and the patient tells the doctor, “no but I wanna buy those guys a beer.”

    That was just fentanyl. So it can be attributed to 1 or any combination of meds.

  20. Depends. Some folks have a fear of dentists( me) and need to be somewhat sedated. It’s usually laughing gas( which gets some folks high af) or some doctors will prescribe a valium or other benzodiazepines.

    Oral surgery usually requires general anesthesia- which can be one or more of several drugs. Medazelam, propophol, and sometimes higher doses of pain medication such as dilaudid are used to sedate.

  21. When I was growing up I got nitrous one time and that was fun but I think dentist’s are trying to lean away from using nitrous now.

  22. Depends on what is being done. I’ve had a dentist pull my teeth before as a child, but had an oral surgeon remove my wisdom teeth. Depends on what you’re doing. Anything that has to do with the mouth can be very delicate when it comes to tooth removal, which is usually what you see online, with the wrappings in mouths.

  24. I’ve been put under twice and was completely fine and good to go the second I woke up, it was like I just took a nap. I don’t know if I have a natural tolerance for the anesthesia or they just give the people in those videos too much.

  26. I’ve only been offered novocain at the dentist, and I’m honestly not sure if they even offer anything else. But I’m lucky enough to have good, healthy teeth (thanks, mom, for always making sure I did my 6-month checkups!), and have only had limited dental work done, other than cleanings.

  27. It depends on the procedure. If we’re getting a filling we get numbing medicine. If we get a tooth pulled or cut out we may have to be put to sleep.

  28. I was knocked out for the removal of my impacted wisdom teeth, but I did wake up briefly when the surgeon was pulling. I remember country music playing. For regular dental work, I’ve just gotten Novocain. They’ll often use nitrous oxide on children. When my kid had a cavity, I was given the choice between Novocain or pay extra for gas (insurance didn’t cover the gas). I decided to pay extra for the gas and not traumatize them with a needle.

  29. I had a dying tooth replaced (so oral surgery) and they gave me a microscopic amount of fentanyl. That stuff is stupid strong. I understand how some people die from it in unhealthy doses.

  30. Ah, another thread with all kinds of confusion and misinformation about the levels of anesthesia and the effects of anesthetic agents.

  31. They gave me nitrous oxide when I had my wisdom teeth pulled. They handed me a smiling plushy. Oral surgeon asked me to, “Stop squeezing Mr Happy so hard. He did nothing to you.” Funniest shit I had ever heard at the time… Good time, would recommend.

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