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, 2009 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, 2009 and published by the ADA in the manual titled CDT-2009/2010. 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 serial and overlapping parallel processes involved in review and revision to the Code.
| Code
Change Requests |
Appeals |
Publication |
Date |
Action |
Date |
Action |
Date |
Action |
| |
|
Appeals
of CRC Actions—Cycle
Batch 3 (Feb.’08 meeting) |
|
| |
|
4/14/08 |
Requestor
appeals to CRC |
|
| |
|
Friday,
May 16, 2008 |
CRC conference
call to act on appeals |
|
| |
|
5/19/08 |
Notice
of CRC action on appeal to Requestor |
Code Publication (2009–2010 Version) |
| |
6/30/08 |
CRC approved
Code revisions ready for publication |
| 7/01/08 |
Code effective
Jan 1 '07 available as ACII text
file |
| Cycle
Batch 1—for Feb. 2009
CRC Meeting (Leading to
the Code version effective January 1, 2011 ) |
|
3rd Qtr
'08 |
CDT-2009/2010 that contains the Code version effective January 1, 2009 is published. |
| 10/01/08 |
Change request batch cut-off |
January
1, 2009 |
Code as
published in CDT-2009/2010 and
on ASCII text file is effective |
| 11/01/08 |
October
batch to CRC for 02/09 meeting. |
|
| 11/13/08 |
Notice—Feb.’09
CRC meeting |
| 12/01/08 |
October
(batch 1) Secretariat Notes to CRC
Members |
| Friday–Saturday,
February 13–14, 2009 |
Two-day
CRC meeting |
| The Code review and revision cycle continues |
|
|
The
Code review and revision cycle
continues |
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