re: Do dentists just not do the hard stuff anymore?

I had the same. Broken tooth that throbbed day and night because the nerve was exposed. They couldn’t see me for two days and by the time I got there he couldn’t pull it because it was infected. And I guess he thought I was bsing about the pain because he jerked on it with one of their tools and I almost jumped out of the chair. Thankfully he prescribed me a few pain pills that would put me to sleep. I can tell you days later when he finally pulled it the pain was gone instantaneously.