ICD-10-CM › K00-K95 › K00-K14 › K03 Other diseases of hard tissues of teeth › K03.0
Excessive attrition of teeth
ValidICD-10-CM diagnosis code.
Valid for claims with a date of service in the current code year.
What has happened to this code
Every change the publisher made, from 2007 to now. Entries marked draft are from the pre-implementation releases: ICD-10 took effect on 1 October 2015, so nothing before FY2016 was ever valid on a claim.
- FY2007 Added to the draft code set draft Excessive attrition of teeth
Official coding rules
Published by CDC for FY2027. A rule attached to a category binds every code beneath it, so the rules inherited from this code's ancestors are shown with the code they come from.
Inherited from K03 Other diseases of hard tissues of teeth
Excludes2 - not included here
- bruxism (F45.8)
- dental caries (K02.-)
- teeth-grinding NOS (F45.8)
How CDC's index refers to this code
Wording from the official alphabetic index. Much of it appears nowhere in the code description, which is why a search for the everyday phrase so often finds nothing.
- Approximal wear
- Occlusal wear, teeth
- Attrition > tooth, teeth
- Wear, worn > tooth, teeth
- Excess, excessive, excessively > attrition, tooth, teeth
Codes in the same group
| Code | Description | Status |
|---|---|---|
| K03.1 | Abrasion of teeth | Valid |
| K03.2 | Erosion of teeth | Valid |
| K03.3 | Pathological resorption of teeth | Valid |
| K03.4 | Hypercementosis | Valid |
| K03.5 | Ankylosis of teeth | Valid |
| K03.6 | Deposits [accretions] on teeth | Valid |
| K03.7 | Posteruptive color changes of dental hard tissues | Valid |
| K03.8 | Other specified diseases of hard tissues of teeth | Not billable |
| K03.9 | Disease of hard tissues of teeth, unspecified | Valid |