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.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.
The definition of anecdotal is something that is story-like or something that is based on stories and retellings, not based on provable facts.
pertaining to, resembling, or containing anecdotes: an anecdotal history of jazz. 2. (of the treatment of subject matter in representational art) pertaining to the relationship of figures or to the arrangement of elements in a scene so as to emphasize the story content of a subject. Compare narrative (def 7).