The invention relates to a method for cutting teeth in workpieces (1), wherein in a roughing operation a blank substantially without teeth receives rough teeth using a first cutting tool (1) comprising cutting teeth (3), wherein teeth (1') are produced, the tooth width (B1) of which defined by the distance of the tooth faces (7, 7', 7") of said teeth is greater than the target dimension (B), wherein in a subsequent deburring operation, a chamfer (11) is incorporated into the end edge of the tooth faces, accompanied by the removal of an end burr, and wherein finally in a smoothing operation the tooth width (B) of the teeth (1') is brought to the target dimension (B) by machining the tooth faces (7, 7', 7"). In order to increase the effectiveness, it is proposed that in the roughing operation a roughing tool having roughing teeth (3) be used, wherein the roughing teeth have a roughing tooth height (4) that substantially corresponds to the target dimension of the tooth gap depth (8), and that in the smoothing operation a smoothing tool (12) having smoothing teeth (13) be used, wherein the smoothing tooth height (18) is less than the roughing tooth height (4), and the smoothing tooth width (15) is greater than the roughing tooth width (5).