Hope yours all better Jay
That doesn't sound good Buska, like how long the root canal?
Mine was 2hrs for the root canal, which a temp cap went in for about a week. Then a temp filling a week after that was drilled out for the temp cap to go back in (was in like jar of guess disinfectant for that time) for two week for this somethingother cap to now go in. Was also injections, some medicines etc as well over this process.
I say new tooth where its some sort of cap but when showed on a set a dentures what it looks like. It's basically a whole tooth and that's all can feel is this new thing which is smooth like butter, the temp cap & filling weren't with the filling I would say was a bit pointy.