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If your talking about alveoloplasy it’s D7310

Ada code for section bridge?

D9999 is an unspecified Oral Surgery procedure, in this case even though the dentist was not the person to do the extraction, but he did do the removal of the stitches. I believe even if it’s not billed code d7912, it is the proper code for the procedure the patient had.

katana

No

The D0140 should only have been sent by the GP, If it was certain the patient needed to RCT. The endo coding for it is not neccassary unless they had to diagnosis if the patient really needed a RCT. But the GP sending the D0140 again at the crown appointment is absolutely unnecessary. Most insurances (more)

Dental Billing & Dental Coding: D5820 Interim Partial Denture Maxillary D5821 Interim Partial Denture Mandibular See more at: https://www.adcaonline.org