Gingival recession
Non-billable header
K06.0 is a non-billable header code. Use one of the more specific codes below.
Inclusion terms
Applicable to
- Gingival recession (postinfective) (postprocedural)
Excludes2
Not included here — may be reported together when both conditions exist.
- certain conditions originating in the perinatal period (P04-P96) (from K06)
- certain infectious and parasitic diseases (A00-B99) (from K06)
- complications of pregnancy, childbirth and the puerperium (O00-O9A) (from K06)
- congenital malformations, deformations and chromosomal abnormalities (Q00-Q99) (from K06)
- endocrine, nutritional and metabolic diseases (E00-E88) (from K06)
- injury, poisoning and certain other consequences of external causes (S00-T88) (from K06)
- neoplasms (C00-D49) (from K06)
- symptoms, signs and abnormal clinical and laboratory findings, not elsewhere classified (R00-R94) (from K06)
- acute gingivitis (K05.0) (from K06)
- atrophy of edentulous alveolar ridge (K08.2) (from K06)
- chronic gingivitis (K05.1) (from K06)
- gingivitis NOS (K05.1) (from K06)
Also known as
- Gingival recession (postinfective) (postprocedural)
Parent code
- K06Other disorders of gingiva and edentulous alveolar ridgeHeader
More specific codes K06.0
Related codes
- K06.1Gingival enlargementBillable
- K06.2Gingival and edentulous alveolar ridge lesions associated with traumaBillable
- K06.3Horizontal alveolar bone lossBillable
- K06.8Other specified disorders of gingiva and edentulous alveolar ridgeBillable
- K06.9Disorder of gingiva and edentulous alveolar ridge, unspecifiedBillable