K02.5Non-billable
Dental caries on pit and fissure surface
Chapter 11: Diseases of the digestive system
Inclusion Terms
1 item
Inclusion Terms
- •Dental caries on chewing surface of tooth
Coding Guidance
K02.5 should not be used for reimbursement purposes as there are more specific codes below it that contain a greater level of detail. See Related Codes to drill down to more specific billable codes for appropriate reimbursement.
Referenced in Diagnoses
Conditions that use this ICD-10 code in their documentation
View documentation for tooth pain
tooth pain
View TemplatesOdontalgia
Additional Information from Parent Codes
The following information may apply to this code from its parent codes in the ICD-10 hierarchy. This information is important for proper coding and classification.
Parent Codes Referenced:
Includes
6 items
Includes
From K02:
- •caries of dentine
- •dental cavities
- •early childhood caries
- •pre-eruptive caries
- •recurrent caries (dentino enamel junction) (enamel) (to the pulp)
- •tooth decay
Excludes2
8 items
Excludes2
From K00-K95:
- •certain conditions originating in the perinatal period (P04-P96)
- •certain infectious and parasitic diseases (A00-B99)
- •
- •congenital malformations, deformations and chromosomal abnormalities (Q00-Q99)
- •endocrine, nutritional and metabolic diseases (E00-E88)
- •injury, poisoning and certain other consequences of external causes (S00-T88)
- •neoplasms (C00-D49)
- •symptoms, signs and abnormal clinical and laboratory findings, not elsewhere classified (R00-R94)