The Board found that the veteran's claim for service connection for residuals of jaw injury is not well grounded and denied the claim.
The deciding factor: The evidence did not show a current disability, continuity of symptomatology, or a nexus between an in-service injury and the current condition.
- Claimed conditions
- residuals of jaw injury
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- July 10, 2000
- Citation
- 0017925
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