D7920 — Skin graft (oral/maxillofacial)
D7920 grafts skin to an oral or facial site, usually to close a defect left by surgery or injury.
There are 24 codes for facial fracture treatment and wound repair and they are not interchangeable. This page covers this one; the facial fracture treatment and wound repair 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.
D7920 compared with its closest relatives
D7912 — Complicated suture — greater than 5 cm: It is the complicated variant, requiring a supporting narrative.
D7911 — Complicated suture — up to 5 cm: It is the complicated variant, requiring a supporting narrative.
D7910 — Suture of recent small wounds — up to 5 cm: It sutures a small recent wound of up to 5 centimetres in the mouth or on the face.
D7997 — Appliance removal (not by the dentist who placed it): It removes an appliance that a different dentist placed, and is billed by the practice picking the case up.
D7920 sits in a group of 24 codes in total; the remainder are linked at the foot of this page. There is no penalty for asking which of these is planned, and there is a real cost to finding out from an explanation of benefits weeks later.
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 D7920
What procedure is D7920?
D7920 records skin graft, oral/maxillofacial — one of the oral and maxillofacial surgery codes.
What is the typical fee for D7920?
$800–$2,400 covers most of the country. Specialist practices and big-city addresses tend to sit in the upper half.
How do dental plans handle D7920?
In most cases yes, at the medical / oral surgery rate: variable. The annual maximum is what usually decides how much of that you actually see.
What is the difference between D7920 and D7912?
D7912 is complicated suture, greater than 5 cm: it is the complicated variant, requiring a supporting narrative. That one difference is the whole distinction; the chair time, the materials and the appointment sequence are the same either way.
Also known as: jaw fracture, facial trauma, open reduction, closed reduction, maxillofacial injury.