Optimized crowning in bevel gear wheels of a bevel gear transmission

A method of making a bevel gear having teeth that are described by flank and profile lines, the flank having a tooth flank micro topography and having a contact area that represents a contact region of engaging teeth, wherein a camber of a tooth flank corresponding to an elevation of a tooth flank center, with respect to a tooth flank edge, is characterized in that by precise material removal, a micro topography of the tooth flank, and thus the contact area, is optimized such that an end thickness on the tooth flank is reduced toward a tooth heel side and a tooth toe side and an area having a greater length and width comes into engagement on the tooth flank to enlarge a contact area, wherein when an ease-off is viewed with no load, the shape of the camber of a tooth flank, in a longitudinal section of a flank sectional surface and/or in a profile section of a flank sectional surface follows an approximately logarithmic, elliptical or exponential curve that runs through a point of contact, wherein a milling cutter follows a machining curve that is superimposed with a correction curve to generate an optimized load-bearing contact area and forms the profile lines and/or the flank lines along an entire tooth width and tooth height of the logarithmic, elliptical or exponential correction curve, wherein the correction curve lies between an upper and lower limit curve, the teeth being designed as a helical or spiral tooth system.