The committee made the changes at its annual convening March 7, according to a March 22 news release from ADA.
Here are four things for dentists to know:
- The new codes are part of CDT 2025, which will go into effect Jan. 1, 2025.
- There are 10 new codes and eight revisions in total.
- A notable revision is the change of the nomenclature and descriptor of D2940 to enable a single code to document the placement of an interim direct restoration.
- One of the new CDT 2025 codes is inclusion of codes for dermal fillers and neuromodulators.
A full list of the guidelines can be found here.