The Board found that the June 1956 rating decision was not clearly and unmistakably erroneous in failing to award service connection for TMJ and denying service connection for a disability of the eyes, as the evidence before the RO did not support these claims at that time.
The deciding factor: The medical evidence before the RO in June 1956 did not establish chronic disabilities involving TMJ or eye pathology present in service or continuity of related symptoms after service.
- Claimed conditions
- temporomandibular joint dysfunction, eye pathology
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- August 9, 2000
- Citation
- 0020846
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