Dental Core FHIR Profiles (R4)
Version 0.2.0 - ci-build

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Official URL: https://fhir.cognovis.de/dental-core/ImplementationGuide/de.cognovis.fhir.dental.core Version: 0.2.0
Draft as of 2026-08-13 Computable Name: DentalCore
Other Identifiers: OID:2.16.840.1.113883.3.7985.2

Copyright/Legal: Copyright 2026+ cognovis GmbH. Cognovis-authored Dental Core material is licensed under Apache-2.0; third-party material retains its own terms as documented in the Third-Party Notices.

Dental Core

Dental Core defines country-neutral FHIR R4 clinical contracts for dental and odontogram exchange. It separates clinical observations and devices from national billing, insurance, practice-management, and transport workflows.

The guide is designed as the clinical dependency of national composition guides. A German composition can depend on both Dental Core and a German practice guide without making either concern part of this package.

The contract follows three rules:

  1. Use FHIR R4 structure directly where it already expresses the fact.
  2. Reference external terminology at the issuer canonical.
  3. Define a Dental Core artifact only for an evidenced structural or semantic gap.

The machine-checkable inventory covers the complete current odontogram document, including tooth records, periodontal case evidence, examination identity, and dated snapshots. Every serialized clinical value has a truthful FHIR resource carrier and a lossless exact-value path. When a performed procedure, device, request, condition, or provenance record does not preserve a legacy chart distinction, Dental Chart State supplements that resource with vendor-neutral property and result codes. It is never the sole substitute for the clinical resource.