Proposed ADA standards available for review by March 22

Documents address endodontic irrigants, data sets

Three new standards are available for review and comment from the American Dental Association’s Standards Program by March 22.

• Proposed ANSI/ADA Standard No. 216, Dentistry — Endodontic Irrigants and Medicaments: This document classifies endodontic irrigants and medicaments used temporarily — less than 30 days — in orthograde endodontic procedures. It specifies the requirements and test methods to be used to determine conformity and includes requirements for the information and instructions accompanying each package.

• Proposed ANSI/ADA Standard No. 1084, Dentistry — Reference Core Data Set for Communication Among Dental and Other Health Information Systems: This document provides the definitions of the elements that constitute the reference core data set of the common electronic dental record, regardless of where the data set is stored. It provides a list of pertinent data fields from the electronic dental record about the patient’s reference core data set that health information system vendors can reference to internally map and extract information from their proprietary dental information system’s data schema.

• Proposed ANSI/ADA Standard No. 1120-3, Dentistry — Data Content Standard: Dental Plan Coverage Information: This document establishes a uniform framework for defining dental plan coverage information to ensure clarity, consistency and interoperability across stakeholders. It specifies the data content required to comprehensively describe a dental insurance offering, including its covered benefits, cost-sharing structure and administrative details such as coverage area and contact information. This document does not prescribe or endorse any specific implementation methodology, implementation guide or technology standard for its adoption.

To obtain a copy of the draft documents, visit ADA.org/aipreview.

The ADA is an American National Standards Institute-Accredited Standards Developer and has been at the forefront of the development of dental standards since 1928. These standards establish requirements for safe and effective dental products and technologies through a consensus-based process.

The ADA Standards Program working groups that develop standards consist of a diverse group of expert volunteers representing dental practitioners, industry, government and academia. Involvement is open to anyone who would like to contribute their expertise.

To learn more about the standards program, visit ADA.org/dentalstandards.