Root canal (the garden variety kind) is not really dental surgery. Root canal is not painful after the procedure, because the procedure removes the nerve that f

Root canal (the garden variety kind) is not really dental surgery. Root canal is not painful after the procedure, because the procedure removes the nerve that feels pain. The injury to surrounding tissue is so minor (a hole of about 1.5mm in diameter for every nerve) that you don't really feel it. It is orders of magnitude less invasive than an extraction and some people don't need anything more than OTC Tylenol for those. I think it's quite obscene to prescribe Vicodin for a root canal. Because it won't do anything for the pain you don't actually have, but you will have other side effects. it's kind of like bringing a fighter jet to a knife fight if you will. People tend to trust doctors when they are prescribed things, so how many people ended up taking the Vicodin prescribed to them only to feel nauseated and drowsy and "out of commission" for a few days after the root canal? Hell, even you thinking that it's reasonable or necessary points to how far we've gone