K00.6
Disturbances in tooth eruption
Billable FY2026 2025-10-01 → 2026-09-30
Exclusions 10 never code together
K00-K95chapter
Excludes2
- certain conditions originating in the perinatal period (P04-P96)P04-P96
- certain infectious and parasitic diseases (A00-B99)A00-B99
- complications of pregnancy, childbirth and the puerperium (O00-O9A)O00-O9A
- congenital malformations, deformations and chromosomal abnormalities (Q00-Q99)Q00-Q99
- endocrine, nutritional and metabolic diseases (E00-E88)E00-E88
- injury, poisoning and certain other consequences of external causes (S00-T88)S00-T88
- neoplasms (C00-D49)C00-D49
- symptoms, signs and abnormal clinical and laboratory findings, not elsewhere classified (R00-R94)R00-R94
Excludes2 — not included here, but the patient may have both. Code both when documented.
Instructional notes 7
K00.6code
Inclusion terms
- Dentia praecox
- Natal tooth
- Neonatal tooth
- Premature eruption of tooth
- Premature shedding of primary [deciduous] tooth
- Prenatal teeth
- Retained [persistent] primary tooth
Index entries leading here 12
- Anomaly, anomalous (congenital) (unspecified type) Q89.9
- Retention — see also Retained
- deciduous tooth K00.6
- Dentition (syndrome) K00.7
- Dentia praecox K00.6
- Disorder (of) — see also Disease
- Disturbance (s) — see also Disease
- tooth
- eruption K00.6
- tooth
- Eruption
- tooth, teeth, abnormal (incomplete) (late) (premature) (sequence) K00.6
- Natal tooth, teeth K00.6
- Neonatal — see also Newborn
- tooth, teeth K00.6
- Persistence, persistent (congenital)
- primary (deciduous)
- teeth K00.6
- primary (deciduous)
- Shedding
- premature, primary (deciduous) teeth K00.6
- Prenatal
- teeth K00.6
Alongside this code 9 same parent — K00
K00.0 Anodontia K00.1 Supernumerary teeth K00.2 Abnormalities of size and form of teeth K00.3 Mottled teeth K00.4 Disturbances in tooth formation K00.5 Hereditary disturbances in tooth structure, NEC K00.7 Teething syndrome K00.8 Other disorders of tooth development K00.9 Disorder of tooth development, unspecified
Additional references
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