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Code on Dental Procedures and nomenclature

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Time Line For Review And Action On Requests To Revise The Code On Dental Procedures And Nomenclature

Please note: Requests to revise the Code may be submitted at any time; all requests received by October 1st of an odd numbered year will be considered for inclusion in the next version of the Code (e.g., requests received by October 1, 2008 will be considered for the version of the Code to be effective January 1, 2011). Scheduled CRC meeting and conference call dates and times are listed on the following timeline.

Time Line
Dates and activity listed immediately below apply to the version of the Code to be effective January 1, 2011 and published by the ADA in the manual titled CDT 2011/2012. Please note that the dates and activity shown on this timeline for the subsequent version of the Code are for planning purposes and are subject to change.

The following table is divided into three parts in order to illustrate the processes, serial and overlapping parallel, involved in review and revision to the Code.

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