Abstract:Objective To investigate the effectiveness of onlay or full crown to treat root-canal-treated premolars. Methods A total number of 163 premolars from 137 patients were included in this study. After treated with root canal therapy, these teeth were randomly assigned to the onlay group and the full crown group. Three years later, the success rate and survival rate of implants were compared between these two modalities. Results The success rate and survival rate of onlay were 91.4% and 98.8% respectively, while those for full crown were 89.0% and 90.2% respectively. No significance was detected between the success rate of two groups (P?>?0.05). But the survival rate of the onlay group is significantly higher than the full crown group (P?0.05). Conclusions Onlay is a better choice to treat root-canal-treated premolars.