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Best Practice Recommendations

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In addition to noting net new dental data concepts within this implementation guide, the work group believed it is beneficial to include best practices for the dental data concepts that are not implementable yet. This is to better prepare for dental data exchange concepts that will continue to enhance the current state of data exchange while utilizing the concepts that are already modeled out. Best practices noted below include the proper use of the new dental sections, incorporating multiple dental codes, and attaching additional unstructured information pertinent to the patient’s dental record.

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