eli5: why is anesthesia not applied in these cases?

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Piercings and tattoos, I mean. Wouldn’t it be easy if we just applied anesthesia? I don’t know if there’s a reason why, but I do wanna know.

*Also, why isn’t anesthesia applied for IUD insertion?

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Because anesthesia is tricky. My ex-FIL, a dentist, just stuck to things like novacaine because the training and liability insurance for doing gas anesthesia was too much. If somebody wanted to be knocked out, he would refer them to another dentist who did it.

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