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This document outlines a core dataset designed for a concise dental data exchange intended to support continuity and coordination of care. It provides a conceptual framework for a dental data for exchange that can serve as the basis for implementation models.
The content reflects an international perspective on organizing dental information for cross-border exchange. It offers guidance on the essential data elements that should be shared globally and proposes a standardized format for their representation. The document focuses on defining the structure of the data to be exchanged (“the what”) without prescribing the specific methods or technologies used for transmission (“the how”).
It does not include guidance on operational workflows such as data entry, collection, summarization, or integration. Nor does it address the competencies required to perform those tasks. Furthermore, it is not intended as an implementation guide and does not cover the underlying technical infrastructure or the use of particular coding systems, data formats, or terminologies.

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prEN ISO 24292 is the CEN adoption of the ISO draft on Health informatics - Dental patient summary. It specifies the Dental Patient Summary (DPS), a core dataset for concise dental data exchange to support continuity and coordination of care. The document is aimed at dental care providers, health informatics teams, and organizations that need a shared structure for cross-border exchange of dental information.

What does prEN ISO 24292 specify?

prEN ISO 24292 specifies the structure of a Dental Patient Summary, not the transmission technology behind it. It gives a conceptual framework for the data to be shared, the way the DPS is organized, and the main clinical and administrative content that can be exchanged in a concise dental summary.

The scope matters in practice because the standard is about the what of exchange - the data elements and their structure - and leaves the how to implementation profiles, systems, and local technical choices. It is also explicit that workflows such as data entry, summarization, integration, and competency requirements are outside its scope.

The document is organized into a hierarchy of clauses for the DPS document, DPS features, and DPS sections, followed by three informative annexes.

AnnexWhat it covers
Annex AImplementation independence and terminology considerations in dentistry
Annex BTooth surface field designations and when to use them
Annex CAdditional resources for specific use cases, including forensics and population analytics and research

What are the key requirements of prEN ISO 24292?

prEN ISO 24292 builds the DPS around a small set of mandatory datablocks, a layered conformance model, and standardized descriptors for each data element. In practice, this means an implementation must preserve the document structure and keep the mandatory dental summary content intact, even when local systems represent the data in different technical ways.

Document structure and conformance

Clause 5 identifies six mandatory datablocks for a conformant DPS document: Patient attributes - specifically the patient’s name - Allergies and intolerances, Dental Problems including diagnosis, History of Dental Procedures, Medication summary, and Cross organization - specifically the originating organization and the date of DPS document creation.

Clause 5.2 defines three conformance levels: full DPS model conformance, DPS document conformance, and datablock-level conformance. The practical effect is that systems can align at different depths, but they must keep the defined sections intact and cannot split or reorganize them in derivative models.

Clause 5.2 also uses the requirement values M, R, RK, O, and C. These mean mandatory, required, required if known, optional, and conditional. For implementers, this is the rule set for deciding what must be present, what may be omitted, and when a parent element changes the status of its children.

How the DPS is organized

Clause 6 describes the dataset as a hierarchy with consistent tables and descriptors. The order of sibling elements is flexible, so systems do not need to store the content in a fixed sequence, but they do need to keep the hierarchy and the named data blocks.

Clause 6 also sets out the descriptors used throughout the document - purpose, definition, business rules, missing, format, inclusion criteria, currency, further detail, and examples. This helps implementers understand how each field is meant to be used and how current the data should be for planned and unplanned care.

Clinical content that matters most

Clauses 13, 14, 17, 22, 23, and 24 carry the most dental-specific content. The sections on History of past dental problems, History of dental procedures, and Dental problems including diagnosis all use list structures with narrative and coded elements, and they rely on the same clinical identifiers such as tooth numbering system, tooth number, tooth surface, tooth location, severity, problem status, and specialist contact.

This matters because dental data often depends on precise localization. The standard therefore expects implementers to identify the tooth numbering system used, the affected tooth or teeth, and any relevant surface or location coding so that records stay clinically unambiguous across practices and borders.

Clause 22 is especially important because the Dental Problems section is mandatory. It covers current, active, unresolved, or monitored dental concerns, and it uses a content-status field to state when there are no known dental problems.

Clause 17 covers History of dental procedures and includes procedure date, body site, and procedure descriptions such as head and neck surgery, periodontal treatment, orthodontic treatment, restorative treatment, prosthodontic treatment, and dental implant-related entries. Clause 19 adds the Medical devices section and treats implants as a type of device.

Other useful content includes Results in Clause 23, which can hold orthodontic, periodontic, laboratory, pathology, radiology, imaging, or clinical results; Social history in Clause 24, which covers smoking, alcohol use, recreational drug use, and related observations; and Vital signs in Clause 25, which limits the supported dental observations to BP diastolic, BP systolic, Height, Weight measured, and BMI.

Clauses 7, 8, 10 to 12, 15 to 16, 18, 20, 26, and 27 adopt or modify sections from ISO 27269:2025, so the DPS is designed to fit within a broader patient summary model rather than stand alone.

What terms does prEN ISO 24292 define?

  • Dental Patient Summary (DPS) - the concise dental dataset defined by the standard for exchange across organizations and borders.
  • DPS document - the top-level summary that contains the mandatory and optional DPS datablocks.
  • DPS section - a grouped clinical area in the summary, such as Allergies and intolerances, Results, or Dental problems including diagnosis.
  • DPS feature - a named data block at the document level, such as Patient attributes or Cross organization.
  • Required if known (RK) - a data element that should be included when the information is available.
  • Dental device - an instrument, apparatus, appliance, software, material, or other article intended for dental use.
  • Tooth numbering system - the notation used to identify individual teeth, such as Universal, FDI, or Palmer.

Who uses prEN ISO 24292?

prEN ISO 24292 is used by dentists, dental specialists, and other dental care providers who need to share patient summaries during referral, transfer, or consultation. It is also relevant for health informatics implementers, EHR vendors, interoperability teams, and standards developers who need a common dental summary structure.

Quality managers and buyers use it when they need to judge whether a dental information system supports cross-organization exchange, structured summaries, and reusable dental data blocks. The document also supports research and analytics use cases mentioned in the introduction and Annex C.

What changed in prEN ISO 24292 from the previous edition?

prEN ISO 24292 is identified as the first edition of ISO 24292.

Which standards are used with prEN ISO 24292?

prEN ISO 24292 has one normative reference: ISO 27269:2025, Health informatics - International patient summary. That standard supplies the base patient-summary structure that prEN ISO 24292 adopts and adapts for dentistry.

The body text and annexes also rely on related standards for terminology and tooth coding. These include EN ISO 1942:2020 for dentistry vocabulary, EN ISO 20888:2020 for forensic oro-dental designation and tooth-surface concepts, EN ISO 3950:2016 for tooth and oral cavity designation, ISO 10394:2023 for supernumerary teeth, and American National Standard/American Dental Association Standard No. 1084:2019 for reference core data in dental information exchange.

What does the prEN ISO 24292 document contain?

prEN ISO 24292 contains a high-level DPS model, a hierarchical description of datablocks, and detailed tables for the major dental summary sections. It also includes clause-by-clause descriptions, examples for dental problems and procedures, and conformance wording for mandatory, required, required if known, optional, and conditional elements.

Annex B gives a practical tooth-surface field table and explains when surface coding should be used, especially for restorations and other surface-dependent procedures. Annex A explains why the model stays implementation-neutral, and Annex C points readers to additional use cases such as forensics and population analytics and research.

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prEN ISO 24292 is a draft published by the European Committee for Standardization (CEN). Its full title is "Health informatics - Dental patient summary (ISO/DIS 24292:2026)". This standard covers: This document outlines a core dataset designed for a concise dental data exchange intended to support continuity and coordination of care. It provides a conceptual framework for a dental data for exchange that can serve as the basis for implementation models. The content reflects an international perspective on organizing dental information for cross-border exchange. It offers guidance on the essential data elements that should be shared globally and proposes a standardized format for their representation. The document focuses on defining the structure of the data to be exchanged (“the what”) without prescribing the specific methods or technologies used for transmission (“the how”). It does not include guidance on operational workflows such as data entry, collection, summarization, or integration. Nor does it address the competencies required to perform those tasks. Furthermore, it is not intended as an implementation guide and does not cover the underlying technical infrastructure or the use of particular coding systems, data formats, or terminologies.

This document outlines a core dataset designed for a concise dental data exchange intended to support continuity and coordination of care. It provides a conceptual framework for a dental data for exchange that can serve as the basis for implementation models. The content reflects an international perspective on organizing dental information for cross-border exchange. It offers guidance on the essential data elements that should be shared globally and proposes a standardized format for their representation. The document focuses on defining the structure of the data to be exchanged (“the what”) without prescribing the specific methods or technologies used for transmission (“the how”). It does not include guidance on operational workflows such as data entry, collection, summarization, or integration. Nor does it address the competencies required to perform those tasks. Furthermore, it is not intended as an implementation guide and does not cover the underlying technical infrastructure or the use of particular coding systems, data formats, or terminologies.

prEN ISO 24292 is classified under the following ICS (International Classification for Standards) categories: 11.060.01 - Dentistry in general; 35.240.80 - IT applications in health care technology. The ICS classification helps identify the subject area and facilitates finding related standards.

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SLOVENSKI STANDARD
01-september-2026
Informatika v zdravstvu - Povzetek podatkov o stanju pacienta v zobozdravstvu
(ISO/DIS 24292:2026)
Health informatics - Dental patient summary (ISO/DIS 24292:2026)
Dentaldaten für den Austausch (ISO/DIS 24292:2026)
Échanges de données du domaine dentaire (ISO/DIS 24292:2026)
Ta slovenski standard je istoveten z: prEN ISO 24292
ICS:
11.060.01 Zobozdravstvo na splošno Dentistry in general
35.240.80 Uporabniške rešitve IT v IT applications in health care
zdravstveni tehniki technology
2003-01.Slovenski inštitut za standardizacijo. Razmnoževanje celote ali delov tega standarda ni dovoljeno.

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Contents Page
Foreword .vi
Introduction .vii
1 Scope . 1
2 Normative references . 1
3 Terms and definitions . 1
4 Abbreviations . 4
5 Dental Patient Summary datablocks . 4
5.1 Introduction to the DPS datablocks .4
5.2 Conformance detail .5
6 Descriptors for the DPS dataset . 6
7 The DPS document . 8
7.1 Description .8
8 The DPS feature: Patient attributes . 9
9 The DPS feature: Healthcare provider . 9
9.1 Description .9
9.2 Detailed description of the healthcare provider DPS feature. .9
10 The DPS feature: Patient’s address book .10
11 The DPS section: Allergies and intolerances . 10
12 The DPS section: Functional status . 10
13 The DPS Section: History of current and past medical problems .10
13.1 Description .10
13.2 Detailed description of section history of current and past medical problems .11
14 The DPS Section: History of past dental problems .11
14.1 Description .11
14.2 Detailed description of section history of past dental problems . 12
14.2.1 Purpose . 12
14.2.2 Definition . 12
14.2.3 Business rules . 12
14.2.4 Missing . 12
14.2.5 Format. 12
14.2.6 Inclusion criteria . 12
14.2.7 Currency . 12
14.2.8 Further detail . 12
14.2.9 Examples . 13
14.3 Past dental problems . 13
14.4 Dental problem . 13
14.5 Dental problem type . 13
14.6 Description . 13
14.6.1 Tooth numbering System . 13
14.6.2 Tooth number . 13
14.6.3 Tooth surface . 13
14.6.4 Tooth location .14
14.7 Severity .14
14.8 Problem status . .14
14.9 Date resolved .14
14.10 Specialist contact.14
15 The DPS section: History of pregnancy . 14
16 The DPS section: History of medical procedures . 14

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17 The DPS section: History of dental procedures . 14
17.1 Description .14
17.2 Detailed description of the DPS section, history of dental procedures . 15
17.2.1 Purpose . 15
17.2.2 Definition . 15
17.2.3 Business rules .16
17.2.4 Missing .16
17.2.5 Format.16
17.2.6 Inclusion criteria .16
17.2.7 Currency .16
17.2.8 Further detail .16
17.2.9 Examples .16
17.3 Dental procedures content status .16
17.4 Dental procedures .16
17.5 Dental procedure . .16
17.6 Description .16
17.6.1 Tooth numbering system .17
17.6.2 Tooth number .17
17.6.3 Tooth surface .17
17.6.4 Tooth location .17
17.7 Body site .17
18 The DPS section: Immunizations . 17
19 The DPS section: Medical devices .18
19.1 Description .18
19.2 Detailed description of the DPS section, Medical devices .18
20 The DPS section: Medication summary . 19
21 The DPS section: Care plan. 19
21.1 Table 12 describes the optional DPS section for a Care plan. .19
21.2 Detailed description of the DPS section, Care plan . 20
22 The DPS section: Dental problems including diagnosis .20
22.1 Description . 20
22.2 Detailed description on the mandatory DPS section, Dental poblems, including
diagnosis. . 22
22.2.1 Purpose . 22
22.2.2 Definition . 22
22.2.3 Business rules . 22
22.2.4 Missing . 22
22.2.5 Format. 22
22.2.6 Inclusion criteria . 22
22.2.7 Currency . 22
22.2.8 Further detail . 22
22.2.9 Examples . 22
22.3 Problems content status . 23
22.4 Problems . 23
22.5 Problem . 23
22.6 Problem type . 23
22.7 Problem description . 23
22.7.1 Tooth numbering system . 23
22.7.2 Tooth number . 23
22.7.3 Tooth surface . 23
22.7.4 Tooth location . 23
22.7.5 Additional information .24
22.8 Diagnosis . .24
22.9 Severity .24
22.10 Problem status . .24
22.11 Specialist contact.24

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23 The DPS section: Results .24
23.1 Description . 25
23.2 Detailed description of DPS section on Results . 25
24 The DPS section: Social history .25
24.1 Description . 25
24.2 Detailed description of the mandatory DPS section social history . 26
24.2.1 Purpose . 26
24.2.2 Definition . 26
24.2.3 Business rules . 26
24.2.4 Missing . 26
24.2.5 Format. 26
24.2.6 Inclusion criteria .27
24.2.7 Currency .27
24.2.8 Further detail .27
24.2.9 Examples .27
24.3 Social factors .27
24.4 Social factor .27
24.5 Social factor description .27
24.6 Social factor details .27
24.7 Reference date range .27
25 The DPS section: Vital signs .27
26 The DPS feature: Cross organization .28
27 The DPS section: Alerts .28
Annex A (informative) Implementation Independence and Terminology Considerations in
dentistry .29
Annex B (informative) .31
Annex C (informative) Additional resources for specific use cases .32
Bibliography .33

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Foreword
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Introduction
0.1 General
As digitization of dental patient records has progressed, there is a growing need to exchange electronic
information among dental providers for patients transitioning from one practice to another, for referral to
dental specialists for consultation and treatment, for exchange of dental data in other healthcare settings
and for research projects. Examples of data for exchange include administrative data, such as patient name
and provider information, clinical findings, treatment data, image files, medications, allergies, and progress
notes. Such data exchange could also support research using the shared data.
Currently, there are no international recommendations for such exchanges for dental practice.
This document in intended to develop recommendations regarding what digital dental information could
be exchanged among electronic dental records and the format for the data elements that support that data
exchange. The goal of the dental data exchange is syntactic and semantic interoperability for electronic
dental record data.
The standardized data exchanged may also be aggregated and used for analytics and research.
The goal of this document is to define Dental patient summary (DPS) comprising core content in a concise
form. This document defines a core, structured dental dataset with associated business rules for a relevant
patient.
The DPS is designed to provide relevant information to assist planned and unplanned care across any
organizational boundary, including country borders and their jurisdictional requirements (e.g. local,
regional, state/provincial, and national).
The DPS dataset in this document is small, even so there is no expectation that the full dataset is realized for
conformant specification and conformant implementation to be produced.
The dataset in this summary is non-exhaustive. The data blocks are introduced to meet patient summary
requirements be they clinical, administrative, or technological in nature.

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Health informatics — Dental patient summary
1 Scope
This document outlines a core dataset designed for a concise dental data exchange intended to support
continuity and coordination of care. It provides a conceptual framework for a Dental Patient Summary that
can serve as the basis for implementation models.
The content reflects an international perspective on organizing dental information for cross-border
exchange. It offers guidance on the essential data elements that should be shared globally and proposes a
standardized format for their representation. The document focuses on defining the structure of the data to
be exchanged (“the what”) without prescribing the specific methods or technologies used for transmission
(“the how”).
It does not include guidance on operational workflows such as data entry, collection, summarization, or
integration. Nor does it address the competencies required to perform those tasks. Furthermore, it is not
intended as an implementation guide and does not cover the underlying technical infrastructure or the use
of particular coding systems, data formats, or terminologies.
2 Normative references
The following documents are referred to in the text in such a way that some or all of their content constitutes
requirements of this document. For dated references, only the edition cited applies. For undated references,
the latest edition of the referenced document (including any amendments) applies.
ISO 27269:2025, Health informatics — International patient summary
3 Terms and definitions
For the purposes of this document, the following terms and definitions / terms and definitions given in Clause
3: ISO 27269:2025- Health informatics — International patient summary.
ISO and IEC maintain terminological databases for use in standardization at the following addresses:
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3.1
dentist
person licensed by a regulatory body to practise dentistry
[1]
[SOURCE: EN ISO 1942:2020 ]
3.2
dentistry
science of preventing, diagnosing and treating diseases and malfunctions of, and injuries to, the teeth, mouth
and jaws, and of replacing lost teeth and associated tissues and promoting oral health
[1]
[SOURCE: EN ISO 1942:2020 , 3.1.2.1]

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3.3
dental device
instrument, apparatus, appliance, software, material or other article, whether used alone or in combination,
including the software necessary for its proper application, intended by the manufacturer to be used for
human beings for the purpose of
— diagnosis, prevention, monitoring, treatment or alleviation of oral disease;
— diagnosis, monitoring, treatment, alleviation of or compensation for cranio-facial injury or oral handicap;
— investigation, replacement or modification of the cranio-facial anatomy or of a physiological process
and which does not achieve its principal intended action in or on the human body by pharmacological,
immunological or metabolic means, but which may be assisted in its function by such means;
[1]
[SOURCE: EN ISO 1942:2020 , 3.1.4.7]
3.4
dental material
substance or combination of substances specially formulated and prepared for use in the practice of dentistry
(3.2) and/or associated procedures
[1]
[SOURCE: EN ISO 1942:2020 , 3.1.2.2]
3.5
dental restoration
dental device (3.3) that replaces excavated or lost tooth structure, teeth or oral tissues
[1]
[SOURCE: EN ISO 1942:2020 , 3.1.4.7]
3.6
temporary filling material
filling material (3.1.4.11) intended to serve until a permanent restoration (3.1.4.13) can be placed
3.7
dental prosthesis
dental device (3.3) replacing one or more missing teeth and, if required, associated anatomical structures
[1]
[SOURCE: EN ISO 1942:2020 , 3.1.4.19]
3.8
dental implant
device especially designed to be placed within, through or upon the bones of the cranio-facial complex, the
primary purposes of which are to support and/or to resist displacement of a dental prosthesis (3.7)
3.9
computer aided design - computer aided manufacturing
CAD/CAM
fabrication that involves the use of digitalized dataN
Note 1 to entry: CAD/CAM manufacturing of a dental restoration (3.1.4.13) or prostheses usually include all or some of
the following features:
a) a digital scanning and recording of oral structures captured using an intraoral camera or laser scanning, or the
dimensions and characteristics of the surfaces of the model on which prosthesis or restoration is to fit, or; pattern
of the prosthesis or restoration that is to be reproduced,
b) a software package modelling the recording that can be used to guide the fabrication of appliances that models
the recording and can be used to design the prosthesis, and
c) a machine capable of being guided by the software in shaping the desired prosthesis or restoration.

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[1]
[SOURCE: EN ISO 1942:2020 3.8]
3.10
tooth not present
tooth not visible both in clinical and in a radiologic examination or reported as not present in the dental
record
Note 1 to entry: This term is used if the tooth has been replaced by a prosthesis.
Note 2 to entry: A tooth shall be considered not present even if it is replaced by a dental prosthesis (3.3.8)
Note 3 to entry: This term may be used alone or with a descriptor below. If no descriptor is found that describes the
prosthesis, then the “other- (by report)” descriptor shall be used.
[2]
[SOURCE: EN ISO 20888:2020 3.3.2]
3.11
tooth extracted
area of the jaw previously occupied by a tooth when both the coronal portion and root portion of the both
the deciduous and permanent tooth are not visible intraorally or radiographically
Note 1 to entry: This term may be used in combination with a restorative descriptor.
Note 2 to entry: This term is used when the tooth has been therapeutically lost or the loss is of unknown origin.
[2]
[SOURCE: EN ISO 20888:2020 3.3.2.1]
3.12
tooth missing
missing tooth whose socket exhibits no healing
Note 1 to entry: This term is only to be used if there is substantial evidence that the loss was traumatic and not
therapeutic or through natural causes.
[2]
[SOURCE: EN ISO 20888:2020 , 3.3.2.2]
3.13
tooth missing
tooth that has never been formed and without documentation that it ever existed in the dental
treatment records
Note 1 to entry: This term is only used if there is documented evidence that the tooth bud never existed.
Note 2 to entry: Qualifying a tooth as congenitally missing should be done according to the age of the individual whose
tooth is being examined.
[2]
[SOURCE: EN ISO 20888:2020 3.3.2.3]
3.14
tooth not replaced
area of the jaw previously occupied by a tooth when both the coronal portion and root portion of the both
the deciduous and permanent tooth are not visible intraorally or radiographically, and no fixed or removable
dental prosthesis (3.7) is present to replace the tooth
[2]
[SOURCE: EN ISO 20888:2020 3.3.2.5]
3.15
tooth replaced
area of the jaw previously occupied by a tooth when both the coronal portion and root portion of the both
the deciduous and permanent tooth are not visible intraorally or radiographically, and a fixed or removable
dental prosthesis (3.7) is present to replace the tooth
[2]
[SOURCE: EN ISO 20888:2020 3.3.2.6]

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4 Abbreviations
Table 1
DPS Dental Patient Summary
ICD International Classification of Diseases
IDMP Identification of Medicinal Products standards
PS Patient Summary
SDO Standard Development Organization
SNODENT Systematized Nomenclature of Dentistry
SNOMED Systematized Nomenclature of Medicine
UDI Unique and normalized identifier of the medical device.
5 Dental Patient Summary datablocks
5.1 Introduction to the DPS datablocks
Figure 1 shows the datablocks that define the DPS in this document.
Figure 1 — DPS sections and figures
Figure 1 shows the mandatory DPS datablocks located in the first row. The second row represents the DPS
datablocks that are ‘Required if Known’, and the last row represent the ‘Optional’ datablocks for an DPS.
The establishment of an DPS shall contain the following mandatory Data Blocks at a minimum:

ISO/DIS 24292:2026(en)
Table 2 — Mandatory data blocks for DPS
a) Patient attributes (specifically, ‘Patient’s name’ from the
DPS feature)
b) Allergies and intolerances
c) Dental Problems including diagnosis
d) History of Dental Procedures
e) Medication summary
f) Cross organization (specifically, ‘Originating organiza-
tion’, ‘Date of DPS document creation’
from the DPS Feature)
5.2 Conformance detail
The Dental Patient Summary (DPS) follows a hierarchical structure. At the highest level is the DPS document,
which includes six mandatory datablocks (Table 2 ) and may
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