CDT 2027 available for preorder through ADA Store
Use promo code 26112 to save 20%
Featuring 67 code changes, CDT 2027 is available for preorder through the ADA Store.
The changes include 28 additions, 33 revisions and six editorial updates. The CDT 2027 and Coding Companion Kit with App combines the CDT Code with practical training to help prepare dental practices to use the new and revised codes come Jan. 1, 2027.
The kit includes the CDT 2027: Current Dental Terminology book and e-book with full code descriptors, the CDT 2027 Coding Companion: Training Guide for Dental Professionals book and e-book with more than 300 coding scenarios and a Q&A, and the all-new CDT 2027 App with a new coding companion chatbot.
Purchasers can save 20% on CDT 2027 products in the ADA Store by using promo code 26112 by Aug. 28. The kits will ship Sept. 16.
The Code Maintenance Committee, a standing committee of the ADA Council on Dental Benefit Programs, met in March to accept, revise or decline proposed changes to CDT 2027. Highlights include:
• A new code for the removal of a screw-retained indirect restoration on an implant to enable treatment of the implant body.
• A new code for the placement of a healing cap. The code is intended to be used whenever a healing cap is placed — for example, after implant placement, after second-stage implant surgery or when removing an indirect restoration to enable treatment of the implant body.
• New codes for repairing or removing a fixed splint.
• New codes for implant- and abutment-retained interim fixed dentures for the partially edentulous arch.
• A revision to code D2390 for the placement of a direct resin-based composite crown to allow this code to be used to document and report the procedure delivered to any tooth — anterior or posterior. Previous nomenclature specified application for anterior teeth only.
• Revisions to the section for removable and fixed adjunctive orthodontic therapy. This section, previously titled “Minor Treatments to Control Harmful Habits,” includes revisions to codes D8210 and D8220.
• Additions and revisions to codes for semi-precision abutments and attachments that improve code selection when placing semi-precision abutments on a natural tooth versus an implant and code selection when replacing a replaceable part on a semi-precision attachment on a natural tooth-borne prosthesis versus an implant prosthesis.
• A revision to the code for the administration of neuromodulators and new codes for the delivery of chemodenervation procedures to delineate cosmetic versus therapeutic procedures.
• A suite of new codes for orofacial pain management, such as injection blocks for the occipital nerve, peripheral nerve and sphenopalatine ganglion as well as tendon/ligament and trigger-point muscle injections.
For more information on the CDT Code, visit ADA.org/CDT.
