Good lord, what 3rd world country do you live in?

Nooooo that's awfullll!

Your dentist should just have given you some more novocaine. I've seen people who needed a substantially higher dose than most people would, but giving another injection in the right spot never failed to numb them sufficiantly.

I also had this when I had a wisdom teeth surgically removed by my girlfriend, a 5th year dentistry student. Most people only need one injection. But after two of them, I still felt the pain. And it was ******* painful! And because it was me, she wasn't so decisive when she needed to cut and slice. That made it even worse. Every time I reacted to it, she would only say hold on, endure it. And I did for two hours. Until her senior finally came over and ask me if I need another injection. That saves me a lot of pain. Bad news? She told me to save another wisdom teeth I have for her, the upper, more difficult one. If I found this site beforehand, I would've had an entry on it.

I got four shots of novaccaine in my mouth so they could do something or another. I used to have a phobia of needles, and the novaccaine didn't even kick in until they told me it was okay to start eating again.

............ ouch! =D You could ask for extra shots or something, maybe it just takes a lot for it to actually take effect, a lot of people are like that, actually.

i had to get 4 wisdom teeth out and the doctor wouldn't give me any gas and i was wide awake through the whole thing. i was wondering why he wouldn't give me the gas. i later found out that he got banned from using it cause he kept getting caught using it on himself.

See, I have a GOOD dentist and he doesn't start any procedure before the Novocaine kicks in.

I have the same thing. I learned it, however, when they were performing a root canal and then extracting two impacted wisdom teeth. It was murder.

It's impossible to be "immune" to novocaine.