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Dental extraction. A dental extraction (also referred to as tooth extraction, exodontia, exodontics, or informally, tooth pulling) is the removal of teeth from the dental alveolus (socket) in the alveolar bone.
The basic procedure is: 1  An impression is taken of your teeth and the bite recorded. 2  The dentist tells the technician which tooth (or teeth) are going to be extracted. 3  The technician grinds these off the model of your teeth to simulate the extraction and makes the denture in the normal way.