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Prosthetic Device Findings

Prosthetic Device Findings

Technical defects are observations about an identified Device. They are not diagnoses about the patient and do not belong in a local tooth-status namespace.

DentalProsthesisDE identifies a removable prosthesis. ImplantSuprastructureDE identifies an implant-supported crown, bridge, or other suprastructure. The corresponding observations reference the Device through Observation.focus:

• ProsthesisFindingDE for removable prostheses; and
• SuprastructureFindingDE for implant suprastructures.

The finding terminology is manufacturer-neutral. Implant-supported removable prostheses can reference supporting DentalImplantDE resources without encoding a product system or brand.

Billing suggestions

The finding-to-BEMA and finding-to-GOZ ConceptMap resources provide candidate codes only. They use relatedto mappings because a technical finding alone does not establish which service was performed or whether that service is billable. Billing systems must evaluate the performed procedure, applicable rules, and the current catalog version separately.