Surgical Services (Including Usual Postoperative Care)

Site: A term used to describe a single area, position, or locus. The word “site” is frequently used to indicate an area of soft tissue recession on a single tooth or an osseous defect adjacent to a single tooth; also used to indicate soft tissue defects and/or osseous defects in edentulous tooth positions. If two contiguous teeth have areas of soft tissue recession, each tooth is a single site. If two contiguous teeth have adjacent but separate osseous defects, each defect is a single site. If two contiguous teeth have a communicating interproximal osseous defect, it should be considered a single site. All non-communicating osseous defects are single sites. All edentulous non-contiguous tooth positions are single sites. Up to two contiguous edentulous tooth positions may be considered a single site. Tooth Bounded Space: A space created by one or more missing teeth that has a tooth on each side.