The Board has granted the veteran's claim for service connection for TMJ syndrome as secondary to his service-connected mandible fracture residuals. The case is remanded for further evaluation of the veteran's residuals of a mandible fracture, including consideration of TMJ syndrome.
The deciding factor: Service connection was established based on the opinion that the current TMJ condition is proximately due to or the result of the veteran's service-connected mandible fracture.
- Claimed conditions
- TMJ syndrome, mandible fracture
- How they argued it
- Secondary to another service-connected condition
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 10%
- Decision date
- July 26, 2000
- Citation
- 0019587
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What this means for you
A grant means the Board agreed the veteran was entitled to the benefit. Decisions like this show the kind of evidence and arguments that tend to succeed for claims like it.
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- Remanded (sent back)
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