Other specified disorders of gingiva and edentulous alveolar ridge
Billable / specific
K06.8 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
- Fibrous epulis
- Flabby alveolar ridge
- Giant cell epulis
- Peripheral giant cell granuloma of gingiva
- Pyogenic granuloma of gingiva
- Vertical ridge deficiency
Excludes2
Not included here — may be reported together when both conditions exist.
- gingival cyst (K09.0)
- 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
- Fibrous epulis
- Flabby alveolar ridge
- Giant cell epulis
- Peripheral giant cell granuloma of gingiva
- Pyogenic granuloma of gingiva
- Vertical ridge deficiency
- Deficiency, deficient, vertical ridge
- Deformity, gum, acquired NEC
- Disease, diseased, alveolar ridge, edentulous, specified NEC
- Disease, diseased, edentulousridge, specified NEC
- Disease, diseased, gingiva, specified NEC
- Epulis
- Flabby ridge
- Giant, cell, epulis
- Giant, cell, peripheral granuloma
- Granuloma, giant cell, gingiva
- Granuloma, pyogenic, pyogenicum, gingiva
- Hemorrhage, hemorrhagic, gingiva
- Hemorrhage, hemorrhagic, gum
- Polyp, polypus, gingiva, gum
- Ridge, alveolus, flabby
Parent code
- K06Other disorders of gingiva and edentulous alveolar ridgeHeader