Depends on if the wisdom teeth are impacted or not and how many you need removed. They want you to be in as little pain as possible. It's quite the surgery. I had 3 removed, I was knocked out too. Makes it easier for the dentist to pull out.

Some people can't handle the sounds and such; and depending on the circumstances of the case, the surgery can be major enough to warrant it. My brother is highly allergic to a truckton of pain medications, including novicane, so they had to put him under when they removed his teeth. He had his wisdom teeth and a molar removed, as one of his wisdom teeth had come in underneath it and all but killed it. Needless to say, he was jacked on the few painkillers he could take for several days with a face swollen to high hell and under constant supervision in case he had a reaction. The sounds kill me; I can barely have my teeth cleaned without going nuts. The sounds of bombs (that's what it sounds like towards the back of my mouth) going off in my ear with a spinning drill in my mouth is not fun.

When I had my wisdom teeth out, my dentist told me they were severely it would take over two hours to get them out. There was no way I was staying awake for that! D:

I think that when there are several teeth that if you numb it all the person will have no control over the jaw or tongue or spit, and it's easier to just sedate them. I will just have mine taken out one by one. 3 to go. The sound when the doctor was cutting the tooth in half was actually the worst - it was just very loud. Got pain meds for later, so, in my case: no pain at any point until it was all healed :)

In my country it's not even legal for dentists to put someone under.

Here we book an OR and it is done by a maxiofacial surgeon.

I had 3 taken out at once and all I has was novicane and laughing gas.

Edit: local anaesthetic not novicane

My mom was a dental hygienist before becoming a full time mom. I asked her why oral surgeons put people to sleep and she said that they do it due to the fact that they drill into your jaw and its easier for the patient. Personally, I think another reason is that the brain is really powerful.

#66 Just give them some weed

They have the proper medical staff, the dentist doesn't put you under.

I had 7 wisdom teeth taken out and was put under general anesthesia. It's easier for the surgeon to operate when you're fully out of it, and there's no way I would've wanted to stay awake for that.

You must have had local anaesthetic though. OP had general so they wouldn't have had any pain relief at all when they woke up.