ICD-10 Code K08.82: Secondary occlusal trauma
What is this code?
ICD-10 codes are diagnosis classification codes used in healthcare records, reporting, coding workflows, and billing support. This code sits within the broader ICD-10 area for Diseases of the digestive system (K00-K95).
📋Clinical overview
This ICD-10 code is commonly used when documentation describes occlusal trauma. The most accurate code depends on whether the record identifies primary versus secondary occlusal trauma.
When is it used?
- May be used when a clinician documents secondary occlusal trauma in a patient's medical record.
- May appear in hospital records, claims, referrals, and clinical documentation.
- This code can be used as a clinically usable diagnosis entry in standardized coding workflows.
What it does not mean
- A code alone does not explain severity, treatment plan, or outcome.
- A medical code should not be treated as a substitute for a doctor's diagnosis or advice.
🩺Clinical context
- Dental, periodontic, oral-health, and utilization-review workflows where tooth or periodontal injury is documented as related to occlusal force pattern.
- Coding workflows where the chart supports occlusal trauma and the final code changes based on whether the pattern is primary or secondary.
- Evaluation often includes bite assessment, oral exam findings, periodontal context, and planning for dental adjustment or specialty follow-up.
- Documentation usually becomes more specific when the chart identifies primary versus secondary occlusal trauma and clarifies the surrounding dental or periodontal context.
- Specialist context already linked on this page includes Gastroenterologist, General Physician, Orthopedic Specialist.
🔍Key distinctions
- These ICD-10 codes are reserved for occlusal trauma rather than traumatic tooth loss or fractured restorative material.
- Primary-versus-secondary detail drives the code specificity inside this family.
- Secondary occlusal trauma is coded separately from primary occlusal trauma within this dental-occlusion family.
- Documentation that describes occlusal trauma is coded differently from traumatic tooth loss, fractured restorative material, or other dental disorders not specifically attributed to occlusal force pattern.
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Where you may see this code
You may see this code in hospital records, discharge summaries, insurance claims, encounter documentation, referrals, or other healthcare billing and coding records.
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