D3470 — Intentional reimplantation
D3470 takes the tooth out deliberately, treats it outside the mouth, and puts it back into its socket.
There are eleven codes for root resection and related procedures and they are not interchangeable. This page covers this one; the root resection and related procedures guide covers the treatment they all share.
The rest of this page deals with the specifics: the requirements written into the code, the usual range of fees, the typical benefit outcome, and how to tell it apart from its closest relatives.
Not to be confused with
D3471 — Surgical repair of root resorption — anterior: It surgically repairs resorption eating into the root of a front tooth.
D3472 — Surgical repair of root resorption — premolar: It is that same root-resorption repair on a premolar.
D3473 — Surgical repair of root resorption — molar: It is the root-resorption repair on a molar, the hardest of the three because of the access and the root anatomy.
D3460 — Endodontic endosseous implant: It is the endodontic implant, a post passed through the root into the bone beneath to stabilise a tooth — a historic procedure.
D3470 sits in a group of eleven codes in total; the remainder are linked at the foot of this page. Two of these codes on one estimate is not necessarily an error, but it is always worth asking what each line is for.
Every code in this group
These codes describe the same broad procedure and differ in one respect each. Each has its own page with its own fee range and coverage notes.
Questions about D3470
D3470 — what is it?
Intentional reimplantation. It belongs to the endodontics section of the code set.
How much does D3470 cost?
Between $800–$2,000 in most practices — and that is the figure before any benefit is applied, not what you would pay at the desk.
Will my plan pay for D3470?
Expect major / surgical handling — variable. Submitting an estimate first turns that percentage into a number you can rely on.
What is the difference between D3470 and D3471?
D3471 is surgical repair of root resorption, anterior: it surgically repairs resorption eating into the root of a front tooth. They are different operations that happen to sit next to each other in the code set, so one is not an alternative way of billing the other.
Also known as: root amputation, hemisection, decoronation, root resorption, intentional reimplantation.