Since some medications can be passed to the baby through the placenta, anesthesia use can be a source of worry for some parents-to-be. However, if you need a dental procedure during pregnancy, your dentist will only use as much local anesthesia (like Novocain) as it takes to keep you comfortable. This is considered safer than the stress that you and your baby would be put under if you had the procedure done without anesthesia or didn’t address the dental issue at all...