K00.6
Disturbances in tooth eruption
BillableComplete code, valid to report
K00.6 (also written K006) is a billable ICD-10-CM diagnosis code for disturbances in tooth eruption. It is part of the FY2027 code set, effective October 1, 2026. It is one of the 10 codes in category K00 (Disorders of tooth development and eruption). The Alphabetic Index lists it under 15 entries. Its coding notes include 10 Excludes2 entries.
Excludes2
Not included here. Both codes may be reported if the patient has both conditions.
This code
- embedded and impacted teeth (K01.-)
Also from chapter/block level (8 notes)
Inherited from Chapter 11 Diseases of the digestive system
- certain conditions originating in the perinatal period (P04-P96)
- certain infectious and parasitic diseases (A00-B99)
- complications of pregnancy, childbirth and the puerperium (O00-O9A)
- congenital malformations, deformations and chromosomal abnormalities (Q00-Q99)
- endocrine, nutritional and metabolic diseases (E00-E88)
- injury, poisoning and certain other consequences of external causes (S00-T88)
- neoplasms (C00-D49)
- symptoms, signs and abnormal clinical and laboratory findings, not elsewhere classified (R00-R94)
Inclusion terms
Conditions classified to this code.
This code
- Dentia praecox
- Natal tooth
- Neonatal tooth
- Premature eruption of tooth
- Premature shedding of primary [deciduous] tooth
- Prenatal teeth
- Retained [persistent] primary tooth
Alphabetic Index terms
Terms the official Alphabetic Index lists for this code. 15 entries
- Anomaly, anomalous (congenital) (unspecified type), tooth, teeth, eruption
- Dentia praecox
- Dentition (syndrome), delayed
- Dentition (syndrome), precocious
- Dentition (syndrome), premature
- Dentition (syndrome), retarded
- Disorder (of), tooth, eruption
- Disturbance (s), tooth, eruption
- Eruption, tooth, teeth, abnormal (incomplete) (late) (premature) (sequence)
- Natal tooth, teeth
- Neonatal, tooth, teeth
- Persistence, persistent (congenital), primary (deciduous), teeth