The Board has determined that the veteran's loss of sense of smell is related to an injury sustained during service and grants the claim for service connection.
The deciding factor: The evidence shows that the veteran's loss of sense of smell was caused by a trauma sustained in the facial bones, which destroyed at least the nerve endings in the olfactory apparatus.
- Claimed conditions
- loss of sense of smell
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- September 24, 2003
- Citation
- 0324772
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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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