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Cake day: July 20th, 2023

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  • Ye, going full under is understandably taken very seriously, and is used less where they think it can be avoided. It’s not common at all to be put under if removing wisdom teeth for instance, unless completely medically necessary, and I think they also do it with severe dentist fright. One time during a colonoscopy I didn’t even get any sedation until like midway through when I started twisting in pain and all I managed to say was “can I have…”

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  • Probably just different practices, I’m not in the us. I’ve had like 7 of them, and it’s just the nurses at the gastrolab who inject me with the funny juice, but it doesn’t knock me out. Might’ve been an anesthesiologist there to give a nod of approval, but I doubt it. Anywho, seems like you know more about the medicine part of it, so I defer to you Dr. Daddy