About wisdom teeth: the concept of being under complete anesthesia to get your wisdom teeth out is rather unheard of here. I'm sure it exists, but I've talked to way more people from the states that get them out that way than over here, regardless of whether the teeth show already.

I had a pretty bad experience with getting one of them out (the first one). It was so grown into my bone that they had to cut it into pieces, but since that means cutting straight through the nerve and the local anesthetics don't work that well there (even if they inject it directly into the nerve, it's transported away almost immediately), I was in a lot of pain. They tried to give me laughing gas, but nobody told me that it can kind of make you high, I had never even been drunk at that point in my life and suddenly started perceiving the world differently, which freaked me out. So, they had to do parts with me in pain. The doctor even had to call her boss to help pull the pieces in the end, the tooth was that stuck...

The three after that were also removed under local anesthesia only.


Yet, I'm not scared of dentists. I have had various braces for 6 or 7 years, I'm used to weird stuff going on in my mouth, including pain. It definitely made me scared of anesthesia though, since it seemed to wear off faster than they expected for me, and in different circumstances that sounds kind of uncomfortable...