What is the recovery time for a root canal?

What is the recovery time for a root canal?

Ronald Rosenblatt, DDS (General and Cosmetic Dentistry) gives expert video advice on: Are root canals painful?; Will a root canal permanently save my tooth? and more...

After you've had your root canal, you should be out of pain almost immediately. There are occasions where you will still have some discomfort for some time after. Usually it depends on how severe the problem was prior to the root canal. As far as restoring the tooth, we usually wait a week after a root canal before deciding to restore the tooth.