The veteran's claim for VA outpatient dental treatment, including service connection of tooth number 9, and eligibility to Class I and Class II entitlement is denied as a matter of law.
The deciding factor: VA regulations do not provide for the establishment of service connection for dental treatment based on in-service treatment or trauma. The veteran does not have any compensable service-connected dental disability that would warrant Class I entitlement.
- Claimed conditions
- tooth number 9
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- March 15, 2004
- Citation
- 0406718
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