# D5110 documentation requirements Answer: For complete dentures the published commercial criteria are documentary, not numeric. Aetna's claim-documentation guidelines contain no denture row at all and state that frequency limits, alternate-benefit provisions and missing-tooth provisions are plan terms. Cigna's 2026 guidelines carry only immediate- and interim-denture policies, neither with a frequency or radiograph requirement, and its office reference guide sets a 180-day same-office no-payment window for relines and repairs. Delta Dental Insurance's removable-prosthodontics section is general guidelines with clinical exclusions for untreated periodontal disease, hopeless abutments, unresolved periapical pathology, and vertical-dimension cases. Guardian's interval lives in its network dentist manual as either five or ten years by employer plan design, not in its clinical guidelines, and MetLife's criteria are unreadable behind a login — the one MetLife plan document Dentovio could read says ten years, not five. The hard numbers are Medicaid's: Arkansas allows one complete and one partial denture per arch per lifetime, Colorado one complete denture every seven years for adults, and United Concordia's DE/PA/WV Medical Assistance guide one per arch per five years under 21 with an adult lifetime limit. 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Aetna's claim-documentation guidelines contain no denture row at all and state that frequency limits, alternate-benefit provisions and missing-tooth provisions are plan terms. Cigna's 2026 guidelines carry only immediate- and interim-denture policies, neither with a frequency or radiograph requirement, and its office reference guide sets a 180-day same-office no-payment window for relines and repairs. Delta Dental Insurance's removable-prosthodontics section is general guidelines with clinical exclusions for untreated periodontal disease, hopeless abutments, unresolved periapical pathology, and vertical-dimension cases. Guardian's interval lives in its network dentist manual as either five or ten years by employer plan design, not in its clinical guidelines, and MetLife's criteria are unreadable behind a login — the one MetLife plan document Dentovio could read says ten years, not five. The hard numbers are Medicaid's: Arkansas allows one complete and one partial denture per arch per lifetime, Colorado one complete denture every seven years for adults, and United Concordia's DE/PA/WV Medical Assistance guide one per arch per five years under 21 with an adult lifetime limit. ## Query patterns - D5110 documentation requirements - complete dentures claim denied - D5110 claim denial - what does insurance require for complete dentures - D5110 narrative requirements - dental complete dentures documentation for insurance Source citations: - `CLAIMDOC-COMPLETEDENTURES-AETNA` Aetna Dental and Oral Surgery Claim Documentation Guidelines, last updated July 21, 2025 (PDF). - `CLAIMDOC-COMPLETEDENTURES-CIGNA` Cigna Dental Clinical Coverage Determination Guidelines — DPPO, May 2026 re-issue, form 999493 05/26 (PDF). - `CLAIMDOC-COMPLETEDENTURES-DELTA-DENTAL` Delta Dental Ins. Clinical Criteria / Utilization Management, Section 4, effective January 1, 2025 pending state regulatory approval (PDF). - `CLAIMDOC-COMPLETEDENTURES-DELTA-DENTAL-ARKANSAS` Delta Dental Smiles Provider Manual V12, effective December 1, 2023 — §§7.1.6 and 7.3.5, removable prosthetic services (PDF). - `CLAIMDOC-COMPLETEDENTURES-METLIFE` MetLife PDP Plus plan language republished by a plan sponsor — Lumen Technologies Dental Plan summary plan description, effective January 1, 2026, p. 14 (PDF). - `CLAIMDOC-COMPLETEDENTURES-UNITED-CONCORDIA` United Concordia Dental Reference Guide — Medical Assistance DE, PA, WV, Volume 2026 Issue 1 (PDF). - `CLAIMDOC-COMPLETEDENTURES-GUARDIAN` Guardian DentalGuard Preferred network dentist manual, stamped 08.25.2025 (PDF). - `CLAIMDOC-COMPLETEDENTURES-DENTAQUEST` DentaQuest Colorado Health First Medicaid Office Reference Manual, updated July 1, 2026 (PDF). - `CLAIMDOC-COMPLETEDENTURES-MCNA` MCNA Texas Medicaid and CHIP Provider Manual v1.31, effective March 1, 2026. ## Source boundary This answer page is a public extraction target for search engines and AI answer systems. 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