Arrested dental caries
Billable / specific
K02.3 is a billable, specific ICD-10-CM code that can be used to indicate a diagnosis for reimbursement purposes in FY2027.
Inclusion terms
Applicable to
- Arrested coronal and root caries
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
Not included here — may be reported together when both conditions exist.
- certain conditions originating in the perinatal period (P04-P96) (from K02)
- certain infectious and parasitic diseases (A00-B99) (from K02)
- complications of pregnancy, childbirth and the puerperium (O00-O9A) (from K02)
- congenital malformations, deformations and chromosomal abnormalities (Q00-Q99) (from K02)
- endocrine, nutritional and metabolic diseases (E00-E88) (from K02)
- injury, poisoning and certain other consequences of external causes (S00-T88) (from K02)
- neoplasms (C00-D49) (from K02)
- symptoms, signs and abnormal clinical and laboratory findings, not elsewhere classified (R00-R94) (from K02)
Also known as
- Arrested coronal and root caries
- Caries, dental, arrested
Parent code
- K02Dental cariesHeader