It's easier to just knock me out!

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Sometimes I would swear that the tools and methodologies of dental work are intended to be punitive. Sometimes it seems that the dentists are definitely trying to put a good healthy fear into you with the cavalier way that they handle your mouth and jaw. I have also had oral surgery twice before and I must say that it is such a HUGE improvement in every way over drilling and filling while you watch or pulling teeth while you sit there helplessly allowing them to tear a tooth and root from your savaged and torn gums. It is almost as if the local anasthetics that they use are not at all intended to help you, because they wear off so quickly after your procedure is done. If they really wanted to ease your post procedural pain you would think rather than prescribing you vicodin or Tylenol 3 with codeine in it. It makes no sense to give you semi-effective narcotic drugs that you have to swallow and wait 30 minutes to an hour to get any relief at all. Why not just give us some prefilled auto injectors filled with novocaine, marcaine, or lidocaine? If they weren't trying to traumatize you and leave you in pain they would hide the mechanics of repairing your teeth behind the shroud of unconciousness like any other doctor does for a surgical rocedure! Do you agree or disagree that they are trying to mend your oral hygeine ways with fear and pain every time you have to have work done on your teeth?