Ask a dental team which code covers periodontal charting, and most will answer D0180. The 2026 revision to the D0180 descriptor now spells out “full mouth probing and periodontal charting” as part of ...
“Once perio maintenance, always perio maintenance” is a perpetual coding myth that the CDT Current Dental Terminology Coding Companion (Page 184) dispelled in 2023. Even so, controversy continues to ...