Now, last coding, Fast Facts, we talked about why radiographs need to have medical necessity, a reason why you took the radiograph and then also has to have proof of the fact that you reviewed the radiograph and noted any findings. So with D0210, that’s not any different.
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Fast Facts: Perio Edition Episode 72 [Andrew Johnston, RDH] Welcome back everyone! You are listening to another episode of Fast Facts- Perio Edition brought to you by A Tale of Two Hygienists in partnership with DentistRX. And now, please welcome your host, Katrina Sanders. [Katrina Sanders, RDH]Hello and welcome to Fast Facts Perio
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This week, I’ve got a “gut” feeling you’re going to be very interested in this research piece. We’re rolling out some new research. This comes to us from June of 2022 looking at how periodontitis may actually have an influence on the microbiota of the gut flora.
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Fast Facts: Coding Episode 11 [Andrew Johnston, RDH] Welcome back everyone! You are listening to another episode of Fast Facts- Coding Edition brought to you by A Tale of Two Hygienists in partnership with DentistRX. And now, please welcome your host, Teresa Duncan, MS. [Teresa Duncan, MS] Hello, and welcome to
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Hi, welcome to your Coding: Fast Facts today we’re going to talk about D1110 versus D4346. What are these codes? Well, they’re the most common preventive codes that you’re going to run into. And so let’s just go over the first ones. D1110 is prophylaxis, adult, and real dry here. But let me go ahead and read you the exact definition of it.
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This week we are loving up on Thanksgiving once again, this time talking about my favorite dessert and that is of course pumpkin pie. Who doesn’t love it when your waistband is so stretched out from that fabulous Thanksgiving dinner and yet you still find a little bit more room for a tiny little slice of pumpkin pie.
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Thanksgiving is upon us, and I’d be remiss to celebrate Turkey and not talk about what we understand about Turkey and periodontitis. Today’s Fast Facts Perio Edition looks at some of the associations between the consumption of turkey or poultry and what that dietary pattern means for periodontitis.
Now, what we’re going to do with the laser disinfection is we’re going to make sure that it’s noted in the clinical notes what you did, what is encompassed in that. And so there has to be some verbiage in the clinical documentation that you actually did do this. Now, will it be covered?
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This week, we are going to shrink down and magic school bus into a furcation. For all my millennials out there, we all learned science with Ms. Frizzle, and today we’re going to learn about the science of furcations by shrinking down and really exploring what we know about furcations.
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This week, I am going to unpack for you a weird fact, a fun fact that some of you might know, but I found just kind of weird. We are now starting to see some incredible data coming down indicating that in other countries, they are utilizing statins as an adjunct to scaling and root planing.
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Today we’re going to talk about D0171, which is a follow up code. It’s a post op evaluation code that is so criminally underutilized. I like to say that about this code, it’s criminally underutilized. Same thing with adult fluoride. One of those codes that just is there, and I just think it could be used more.
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Fast Facts: Perio Edition Episode 79 [Andrew Johnston, RDH] Welcome back everyone! You are listening to another episode of Fast Facts- Perio Edition brought to you by A Tale of Two Hygienists in partnership with DentistRX. And now, please welcome your host, Katrina Sanders. [Katrina Sanders, RDH] Hello, and welcome to Fast Facts
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