can you get a root canal without a crown?

Yep, you can get a root canal with getting a crown. The reason crowns are sometimes recommended is because we know from studies that back teeth (molars and premolars) are more likely to fracture after root canal therapy. Having a crown (or cap) placed on the tooth helps prevent that.

Yes, but only if the tooth has not suffered a lot of decay on the top surface and has not suffered a lot of decay on the sides of the tooth. By the time a tooth is so badly infected that a root canal is needed, the decay has often damaged much of the rest of the tooth anyway.

The crown acts as a cap to spread the force of chewing to the sides of the tooth.

The less expensive dental programs do not cover crowns because crowns are so expensive; every crown has to be custom-made and fitted, and it takes at least two visits to the dentist : first visit to clean out the tooth and prepare it with a temporary crown, and second visit to install the crown.

Drill, clean, and fill is always less expensive than a crown.

Root canals are expensive too, but you might be able to negotiate a lower price for a tooth that has only one root, like a bicuspid. The molars all usually have three roots which requires more time.

Read the rest of the ad for that dental insurance coverage and see if it only pays for silver amalgam fillings. These fillings are silver and mercury and are less expensive than composite fillings. While amalgam fillings have been used safely for many people for decades, some people don't like the idea of mercury in their mouth, and some dentists don't like them because the amalgam only fills the drilled-out space in the tooth, it does not bond to the tooth. As teeth are not perfectly rigid, they flex a tiny bit, there will be spaces opening up that bacteria can migrate into and after a few years, new decay will become evident and the amalgam filling will have to be removed and the tooth cleaned and re-filled again.

Composite fillings bond to the teeth better and therefore help keep out bacteria better. Even so, fillings rarely last over 10 years and so another trip to the dentist will be required.

And today crowns are attached to the tooth with composite cements.

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can you get a root canal without a crown?

I saw a thing for insurance coverage and it said it covers root canals but not crowns. can you even get a root canal without a crown? does it cost extra for a crown

yes - and I had some composite fillings for 28 years.