M27.8
Other specified diseases of jaws
Billable FY2026 2025-10-01 → 2026-09-30
Exclusions 13 never code together
M26-M27block
M00-M99chapter
Excludes2
- arthropathic psoriasis (L40.5-)L40.5-
- certain conditions originating in the perinatal period (P04-P96)P04-P96
- certain infectious and parasitic diseases (A00-B99)A00-B99
- compartment syndrome (traumatic) (T79.A-)T79.A-
- 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
Excludes1 — never code together. The excluded condition and this one are mutually exclusive.
Excludes2 — not included here, but the patient may have both. Code both when documented.
Instructional notes 6
Index entries leading here 10
- Deformity Q89.9
- Cherubism M27.8
- Disease, diseased — see also Syndrome
- Dysplasia — see also Anomaly
- fibrous
- jaw M27.8
- fibrous
- Enostosis M27.8
- Exostosis — see also Disorder, bone
- jaw (bone) M27.8
- Fistula (cutaneous) L98.8
- palate (hard) M27.8
- Hyperplasia, hyperplastic
- Hypertrophy, hypertrophic
- palate (hard) M27.8
- Hypoplasia, hypoplastic
Alongside this code 8 same parent — M27
M27.0 Developmental disorders of jaws M27.1 Giant cell granuloma, central M27.2 Inflammatory conditions of jaws M27.3 Alveolitis of jaws M27.4 Other and unspecified cysts of jaw category M27.5 Periradicular pathology assoc w previous endodontic trtmt category M27.6 Endosseous dental implant failure category M27.9 Disease of jaws, unspecified
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