“Is it painful to get a crown put on your tooth?”

A crown is a routine procedure that restores a tooth to about 100% of its original strength. The procedure typically requires local anesthesia which means you will be completely numb during the procedure. Post operative healing and discomfort is typically mild and should be easily handled by ibuprofen or tyelnol.

First, depending on how the crown is made, this is usually a 1 or 2 visit procedure, occasionally 3. If you had a root canal procedure on the tooth, you have no nerve remaining, so you won't feel the preparation at all. If you didn't, you will be numb, and, again, won't feel it. If the crown is being made "in-house" the tooth will be scanned into a computer and, a few hours later, the final crown will be cemented. If the crown is being conventionally made, an impression will be made either on the first visit and then a final crown will be cemented on the second visit, or (if there's too much bleeding for various reasons) an impression done on the 2nd visit and the final crown cemented on the 3rd. You would have a temporary crown covering your tooth between visits. So, in short and to answer your question, no.