Open restoration margins of tooth
Billable / specific
K08.51 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
- Dental restoration failure of marginal integrity
- Open margin on tooth restoration
- Poor gingival margin to tooth restoration
Excludes1
Not coded here — never report together with this code.
Excludes2
Not included here — may be reported together when both conditions exist.
- endosseous dental implant failure (M27.6-) (from K08.5)
- unsatisfactory endodontic treatment (M27.5-) (from K08.5)
- certain conditions originating in the perinatal period (P04-P96) (from K08)
- certain infectious and parasitic diseases (A00-B99) (from K08)
- complications of pregnancy, childbirth and the puerperium (O00-O9A) (from K08)
- congenital malformations, deformations and chromosomal abnormalities (Q00-Q99) (from K08)
- endocrine, nutritional and metabolic diseases (E00-E88) (from K08)
- injury, poisoning and certain other consequences of external causes (S00-T88) (from K08)
- neoplasms (C00-D49) (from K08)
- symptoms, signs and abnormal clinical and laboratory findings, not elsewhere classified (R00-R94) (from K08)
- dentofacial anomalies [including malocclusion] (M26.-) (from K08)
- disorders of jaw (M27.-) (from K08)
Also known as
- Dental restoration failure of marginal integrity
- Open margin on tooth restoration
- Poor gingival margin to tooth restoration
- Dental, restoration, failure of marginal integrity
- Open, opening, margin on tooth restoration
- Open, opening, restoration margins of tooth
- Poor, gingival margin to tooth restoration
- Restoration, dental, failure of marginal integrity
- Restoration, tooth, open margins
- Restoration, tooth, poor gingival margins
Parent code
- K08.5Unsatisfactory restoration of toothHeader
Related codes
- K08.50Unsatisfactory restoration of tooth, unspecifiedBillable
- K08.52Unrepairable overhanging of dental restorative materialsBillable
- K08.53Fractured dental restorative materialHeader
- K08.54Contour of existing restoration of tooth biologically incompatible with oral healthBillable
- K08.55Allergy to existing dental restorative materialBillable
- K08.56Poor aesthetic of existing restoration of toothBillable
- K08.59Other unsatisfactory restoration of toothBillable