2025 ICD-10-CM Diagnosis Code K00.6

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Disturbances in tooth eruption

  • K00.6 is a billable/specific ICD-10-CM code that can be used to indicate a diagnosis for reimbursement purposes.
  • The 2025 edition of ICD-10-CM K00.6 became effective on October 1, 2024.
  • This is the American ICD-10-CM version of K00.6 – other international versions of ICD-10 K00.6 may differ.

Applicable To

  • Dentia praecox
  • Natal tooth
  • Neonatal tooth
  • Premature eruption of tooth
  • Premature shedding of primary [deciduous] tooth
  • Prenatal teeth
  • Retained [persistent] primary tooth

Type 2 Excludes

  • embedded and impacted teeth (K01.-)

The following code(s) above K00.6 contain annotation back-references

 that may be applicable to K00.6:

  • K00-K95  Diseases of the digestive system
  • K00  Disorders of tooth development and eruption

Approximate Synonyms

  • Disturbance in tooth eruption
  • Neonatal teeth
  • Neonatal tooth
  • Tooth eruption disorder

Clinical Information

  • Predeciduous teeth present at birth. They may be well formed and normal or may represent hornified epithelial structures without roots. They are found on the gingivae over the crest of the ridge and arise from accessory buds of the dental lamina ahead of the deciduous buds or from buds of the accessory dental lamina. (from jablonski, dictionary of dentistry, 1992)

ICD-10-CM K00.6 is grouped within Diagnostic Related Group(s) (MS-DRG v42.0):

  • 011 Tracheostomy for face, mouth and neck diagnoses or laryngectomy with mcc
  • 012 Tracheostomy for face, mouth and neck diagnoses or laryngectomy with cc
  • 013 Tracheostomy for face, mouth and neck diagnoses or laryngectomy without cc/mcc
  • 157 Dental and oral diseases with mcc
  • 158 Dental and oral diseases with cc
  • 159 Dental and oral diseases without cc/mcc
  • 795 Normal newborn

Convert K00.6 to ICD-9-CMCode History

  • 2016 (effective 10/1/2015): New code (first year of non-draft ICD-10-CM)
  • 2017 (effective 10/1/2016): No change
  • 2018 (effective 10/1/2017): No change
  • 2019 (effective 10/1/2018): No change
  • 2020 (effective 10/1/2019): No change
  • 2021 (effective 10/1/2020): No change
  • 2022 (effective 10/1/2021): No change
  • 2023 (effective 10/1/2022): No change
  • 2024 (effective 10/1/2023): No change
  • 2025 (effective 10/1/2024): No change

Diagnosis Index entries containing back-references to K00.6:

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