10-12 years ago I would get small dose (5mg or less) Hydrocodone for an infected tooth or pre-root canal

Today it is just high dose ibuprofen, luckily I have pretty good dental insurance now (did not in my late teens and early 20s) so I do not need the dentist for anything more than cleanings but I do think my luck that I went through that pain back then instead of now, taking high does IB would not have let me sleep back in those days as I had to wait for the Antibiotics to kill the infection before they could remove or fill the tooth, that took anywhere from 2 to 7 days (had 2 infected teeth a couple years apart, I was hard on my teeth in youth, a lesson learned the hard way)

For what it's worth, I was prescribed the oxycodone-acetaminophen combination last month for an extraction of my four wisdom teeth in the US. My extractions were apparently some of the hardest in the surgeon's 30 years, so I'm not sure if this is the norm.