To be scared poopless about dental crown prep on a non root canalled tooth?

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I have this being done Friday. It is an upper premolar and the only tooth I eat on. I have no back teeth at all and no premolars on the other side.
The tooth is mostly filling done by a prior dentist.
The nerve pain becoming permanent post prep is what is scaring me. The tooth being drilled down so close to the nerve on already sensitive tooth. I have a nerve condition which is what led to the 12 teeth being lost - needlessly, again prior dentist.

I am almost tempted to actually ask for a root canal!

Has anyone had this done and it be ok?

No dentist is going to do a root canal on a healthy vital tooth. Sorry!

I have had this done on one of my front teeth! It was OK. better with the actual crown on.

Tooth had thin enamel and a previous veneer, then broke! It has been Ok since the crown. The ££ was more painful tbh

I don't think she's having a root canal? Unless I read it wrongly. I think a crown

@Orangesandlemons77 op wants to ask for a root canal to prevent further pain!!

It is a crown I am having done but I have to wear the temporary for 7 weeks because he is not sure whether it will fail which makes me think I should just pre empt what could be coming and ask to root canal.

Also scared I won't be able to use the loo during the appt. My bladder condition means I can't go more than 45 mins max.

I’m not clear what you mean here but I have two crowns and haven’t had root canal treatment on any of my teeth.

I do not have much of the tooth left, it is mostly filling so the nerves could be very close to the surface before the crown goes on.

Well yes, there’s never much tooth left when they put the crown on. Either it’s disintegrated itself, which is why you need the crown, or they file away pretty much all of it leaving just enough to mount the crown. If there wasn’t enough to mount the crown they would extract the tooth and either implant or bridge/denture.

You can tell your dentist you need to go to the loo part way through. Perhaps after the local has gone in, while they wait for it to numb you up.

I have a lot of crowns without prior root canals. You will need a temporary crown any way while they wait for the crown to be made from your impressions. What the dentist has suggested sounds like a sensible plan. Hope it goes well.

Thank you for all commenting.
It has been a rough year or so being diagnosed with a nerve condition that results in my teeth feeling broken open and my last dentist extracted 12 when I now been told it was all for nothing.

I only have 9 teeth upper and 9 teeth lower now.