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[โ€“] 57 points 1 year ago (10 children)

Iโ€™ve got Irish heritage. My dentist asked me about it because I have a red beard (brown hair). She explained that people with red hair are less responsive to Novocain. I always knew I wasnโ€™t bullshitting that the dentist hurt me as a teen. Finally, proof!

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  • [โ€“] 20 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Not only Novocain, but lots of different types of anesthesia. Im a ginger and have woken up in several procedures, even after warning the doctor I probably would.

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  • [โ€“] 2 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    I suppose you can't blame your earlier dentists, though. How were they supposed to know? And if they automatically treated redheads differently, would that be racism?

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  • [โ€“] 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    It's not racist to treat patients differently when you're talking about how likely they are to react to drugs. Children/teens tend to become bewildered and/or violent when waking up from anesthesia. It's not ageist to prepare for a worse case scenario by calling all hands on deck to hold them down to prevent injury.

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