The Board has granted service connection for TMJ disorder, finding that it was proximately caused by the veteran's service-connected dental trauma.
The deciding factor: The May 1996 VA examination supported the veteran's claim by relating his mild TMJ to his dentures, which are worn due to service-connected missing teeth.
- Claimed conditions
- Temporomandibular joint disorder
- How they argued it
- Aggravation of a pre-existing condition
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- January 3, 2001
- Citation
- 0100097
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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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