CDT: Current Dental Terminology
Title Details
2027 Ed.
Copyright © 2027 by the American Dental Association
American Dental Association
ISBN-13: 978-1-68447-276-5
eISBN-13: 978-1-68447-277-2
Dentistry, Coding & Classification, Dental Hygiene
Additional Details
CDT 2027: Current Dental Terminology is the ADA standard for documenting and reporting dental procedures. This authoritative manual includes the complete CDT code set and descriptors used to support accurate documentation, cleaner insurance claims and faster reimbursement.
With 67 updates, including 28 new codes and 33 revisions, CDT 2027 helps reduce claim errors, improve reimbursement accuracy and ensure services are properly reported.
CDT 2027 features new and revised codes for:
- direct resin-based composite crowns (anterior and posterior).
- removal of screw-retained implant restorations.
- placement of healing caps.
- repair or removal of fixed splints.
- implant-retained interim dentures.
- adjunctive orthodontic therapy.
- semi-precision abutments on natural teeth.
- neuromodulators and chemodenervation procedures.
- orofacial pain management.
Includes:
- full CDT code set and descriptors.
- code changes markup section.
- ICD-10-CM codes for dental procedures
ADA is the official and definitive source for CDT.
The book is written for dental office staff, dental billing staff, and dentists in all general and specialty areas. The guide also can be used as a training guide for coding for students in training for dentistry, dental assisting, and dental hygiene careers. The American Dental Association is the authority for CDT coding and sets the standards for dental procedure coding for the profession.
Doody's Review
"This guide is compact and easy to use. It is comprehensive, adding 29 new codes and revising 18 others to provide practitioners with codes that are more reflective of the way they practice dentistry."
-- Janet Southerland, DDS, MPH, PhD (Meharry Medical College School of Dentistry) - Doody's Review - previous edition
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