Wtf? No this is not normal. My wife even gets pain meds for the Dental Hygienist, because she has a fear for the dentist or anything dentist related. I think it is absolutely unnecessary, but maybe she has hyper sensutive teeth or something. I’m not a doctor. Anyways, the pain meds help her, so she gets them, regardless of whether it is just phychological or not.

I think you’re just suffering from the ridiculousness that calls itself the US healthcare system.