Jamie,
Was just goin to try to snooze but, saw your reply. Please do not get me wrong. My dentist uses novacain like crazy! I even told her, if she were to be in a James Bond movie, her name woud be, “Novacain galore!”lol
She is just not one for pain killers afterwards. Nor am I as I have had my share of them in the past and have never found one that worked any better then aspirin.
I swear by my dentist and would never go to another. Besides my restoration work, I have extreme TMJ. She is the only person after 34 docs that helped me with that. I stil have it but not to the extreme that I did. At least I do not have the dibilataing headaches anymore. She is the best!