Scared of extraction and pain of injections for extraction - Quicksleeper?

[LucyJo84]

I have been referred by a dentist to have a top back molar extracted under general anaesthetic.
I was sedated years ago for an extraction and the pain from the injections were like acid being poured into my mouth.
The pain was on another level !!
I just cannot face that at all.
I would love to sit in a dentist chair and jut have it out but my fight and flight response just will not allow me.
The tooth in question was filled multiple times due to it not settling and it was only when my dentist was/is on sick that another dentist in the practice took another xray and realised it had been cracked
It's had slight infection but not real pain. I'm on another lot of antibiotics and waiting now for my appointment but it could be a while!!
I was thinking last night.. if the palatal injection wasn't so bad, I could maybe push myself to have it extracted at the dentist... which made me think of the wand.
I will pay privately if I was promised that they wouldn't have to use a regular excruciating injection in the roof of my mouth. I just find it unbearable and I know I couldn't sit through it.
the injections to numb it to fill it were nothing, but those other ones to extract are a whole new level!!
Is the wand enough to use for. Top molar extraction??
Or is there a chance they might need to use a traditional injection in the middle of the extraction procedure?
I will only consider having this out awake if I know 100% that the wand will only be used as I've heard it amazingly less painful

 

[Gordon]

Injections on the palate side can be more uncomfortable but given decent technique they really should not be that bad.
There's no reason why you would need a conventional injection technique if a Wand is being used. It can certainly be used to extract an upper molar.


Personal anecdote here, I arranged a demonstration for the Wand just after it came out in the UK, I had thought it would be worth buying for my clinics.
I got my most cack handed dentist to inject me in the palate with it... I didn't feel it at all, so I ordered Wands for my entire health board area

 

[LucyJo84]

@Gordon thank you!

I have found a dentist near me that uses the "Quicksleeper" .. the needle drills into the gum, but works similar to the wand is that right?
this also has no need for a palatal injection, or an mandibular block either, and they have said it is can be used on all dental procedures.
If this is true then this is literally a game changer, and will be such a revolution for me (as dramatic as that sounds) as I cannot bare the pain of the traditional ones. I am not needle phobic at all, I'll sit and take blood, have injections etc.. but the pain from them in the mouth for blocks, Jesus, holy hell!!
I think I'm going to go and check out the Quicksleeper?

 

[Gordon]

New one on me...
The Wand basically is an electric pump which administers the local anaesthetic fluid extremely slowly. The theory is that the thing that causes pain during injections is the pressure of the fluid being forced into a tiny space, hence why injections in the palate are more painful, the tissue is very tightly bound to the bone there. (Also why the pain from injections can be minimised by careful technique by the dentist)
If this works the same way then it'll be fine.
Can't tell you anything else since their website isn't terribly clear how it works.

 

[letsconnect]

I think @drhirst uses the Quicksleeper - I'll send him an alert so hopefully he can answer this