Some things never change
So despite the novacaine, bright lights, light boxes and bite wing X-rays, oral surgery in the 21st century isn't markedly different than dentristry since the middle ages, as far as tooth extractions are concerned. It's still essentially a guy standing on your chest with a pair of pliers in your mouth yanking a tooth out of your jaw.
When I got home I was reminded of one reason why I had kids: So I could gross them out with the bloody socket where the bad molar used to be and shout, "Brush your teeth!"