1 Your dentist or oral surgeon administers local anesthesia with one or more injections near the site of each extraction. 2  Before you receive an injection, your dentist or surgeon will likely apply a substance to your gums to numb them. 3  You're awake during the tooth extraction.ptions include: 1  Local anesthesia. 2  Your dentist or oral surgeon administers local anesthesia with one or more injections near the site of each extraction. 3  Before you receive an injection, your dentist or surgeon will likely apply a substance to your gums to numb them. 4  You're awake during the tooth extraction.
British English: anecdote NOUN. An anecdote is a short, amusing account of something that has happened.He was telling them an anecdote about their mother.
The manuscript that gave rise to one of science's best-known anecdotes is now online. It is one of the most famous anecdotes in the history of science. The young Isaac Newton is sitting in his garden when an apple falls on his head and, in a stroke of brilliant insight, he suddenly comes up with his theory of gravity. The story is almost certainly embellished, both by Newton and the generations of storytellers who came after him.