The Board denied an increased disability rating for the service-connected loss of all teeth and remanded issues related to service connection for multiple disabilities.
The deciding factor: The evidence did not support a compensable rating for the service-connected loss of all teeth, and the RO was directed to consider service connection for additional disabilities as secondary to the dental condition.
- Claimed conditions
- loss of all teeth, scleroderma
- How they argued it
- Not specified
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- April 28, 2000
- Citation
- 0011410
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